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4. Bonn Open Synthesis System BOSS 3 Documentation and User Manual December 20 2005 Stefan Breuer Petra Wagner Julia Abresch J rg Br ggelwirth Hannes Rohde and Karlheinz St ber Contents 1__Introduction 1 1 History and Philosophy of BOSS 1 2 Credits oe phon nk een ie we ale a a 2 Compiling BOSS from source 3 Installing and Using BOSS 3 1 Prerequisites 202 3 2 Client Server modell 3 3 Installing BOSS binaries 3 4 Installing the database 3 4 1 The BOSS configuration file 4 General Architecture of BOSS 4 1 The BOSS lient 4 1 1 Minimal server XML document 4 2 The BOSS server 2 2222 a EE 4 3 Structure of the BOSS server 22 2 bse ume ae Bee at eee a Concatenation and Manipulation A The BOSS directory structure B BOSS configuration files C BOSS DE C 1_XML Elements and Attributes C 1 1 Schema definition of a BOSS DE server document C 1 2 Schema definition of a BOSS_DE inventory document C 1 3 Attribute and element creation order C 2 Configuration files and command line options 26 27 27 27 32 D The GNU General Public License D 1 The BOSS FLOSS exception Chapter 1 Introduction 1 1 History and Philosophy of BOSS The Bonn Open Synthesis System BOSS is an architecture and software developed therefrom capable of producing synthetic speech It wa
5. Christian Wei Hannes Ro hde Michal Holcik Stefan Breuer Chapter 2 Compiling BOSS from source This chapter explains the steps to compile a working binary program from the BOSS source code If you have a binary distribution and just want to use BOSS without changing the program feel free to skip to 3 for usage instructions BOSS uses the GNU Build tools to ensure portability However BOSS has been designed with a UNIX like platform in mind more specifically GNU Linux Thus to be able to compile BOSS your system must at least support POSIX system calls either natively as SunOS BSD and other Unix variants do or through additional software e g Cygwin for MS Win dows So far BOSS has been successfully compiled on SuSE RedHat Gentoo and Ubuntu Linux as well as on SunOS See 8 1 for a list of li braries that are needed for compilation and execution of BOSS To configure the source tree for compilation BOSS uses the GNU auto tools e autoconf http http www gnu org software autoconf e automake http http www gnu org software automake and e libtool http http www gnu org software libtool When all required packages have been installed please extract the BOSS source distribution archive to a directory of your choice e g user host tar xfvz boss 3 0 0 2 tar gz In the next step the BOSS compilation process should be prepared with the commands user host boss 3 0 0 1 bootstrap user
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11. ersion of BOSS called BOSS II Klabbers et al 2001a Klabbers et al 2001b St ber 2003 BOSS II differed from the original BOSS development in its employment of freely available software tools and use of standardized data formats such as XML The database backend was replaced by MySQL The current third major version of BOSS features compatibility to recent versions of GCC 3 0 and above and the Xerces XML parser 2 4 and above as well as enhanced portability by making use of the GNU build tools autoconf au tomake and libtool and increased modularity and configurability by using dynamic loading of modules and XML based configuration files By now the following applications of BOSS exist e Adaptation to Dutch by Esther Klabbers Raymond Veldhuis Mathijs Visser and Karlheinz St ber in 2001 Klabbers et al 2001a e Adaptation to a directory enquiries front end for klickTel GmbH by Ju lia Abresch and Stefan Breuer Breuer Abresch 2003 Hammerstingl Breuer 2003 e Adaptation to Polish by Grazyna Demenko and Stefan Breuer Demenko Grazyna 2003 e Adaptation to British English in collaboration with Mark Huckvale UCL BOSS separates data and algorithms as much as possible Therefore it is easily possible to integrate and utilize various inventories This separa tion is also the premise for the insertion of various languages However the use of languages other than the one originally intended requires mod ifica
12. host boss 3 0 0 1 configure If you are a developer of BOSS you might want to install BOSS to a different location than the default usr local In that case use 7 user host boss 3 0 0 1 configure prefix desired_location then user host boss 3 0 0 1 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH desired_location to point to a directory that is not in the library search path After these commands have completed successfully compilation of the BOSS package can then be initiated with user host boss 3 0 0 1 make Depending on the configuration of your machine the compilation process for the whole package can take several minutes In case you want to repeat the compilation after changing your system e g by upgrading libraries it is good practice to clean up any possible remains from earlier compilations by executing user host make clean The last step the installation of the compiled BOSS package requires root privileges so make you sure you have all permissions i e by logging in as root or by prefixing the command with sudo user host boss 3 0 0 1 make install If you want to remove the BOSS installation from your system at a later point you can reverse the steps of make install by executing user host make uninstall This step just like make install requires root privileges so again make sure to either log in as root or to use sudo if you are logged in as an unpriv ilege
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15. s origi nally developed by Karlheinz St ber The goal of this software is to present developers of speech synthesis systems with an efficient and easy to ex pand software platform The software excels especially at handling inven tory elements of various sizes such as words syllables phones and half phones BOSS uses a non uniform unit selection algorithm to select ap propriate units from large corpora at runtime It is conceived as a network application which means that most of the synthesis procedure is hhandled by a BOSS server application that specialized clients can connect to in a standardized way The BOSS system is free software under the GNU General Public License GPL with a special exception that allows soft ware which is released under a GPL incompatible license to be linked to by BOSS It was developed in C on the GNU Linux platform BOSS is a further development of the synthesis concept of Verbmobil St ber et al 1999 St ber et a 20001 As Verbmobil used a very specialized communication architecture employing a program called testbed which is not freely avail able the first version of BOSS was developed in 2000 Just like Verbmobil this software employed a blackboard architecture for internal communica tion Data was held with the help of the GNU Data Base Manager GDBM Extended demands as well as problems with the flexibility of the blackboard and the database led to the development of the second v
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17. tion of the algorithms To make this portation as simple as possible BOSS makes extensive use of object oriented programming The devel oper who wants to port BOSS to a new language uses the transmission principle to integrate his required algorithms This has to be done only in places requiring language specific modifications and is now facilitated by language independent base classes which new modules can build upon BOSS is a software platform which makes available elementary meth ods for the production of synthetic speech thereby saving the devel opers time they can use for optimizing speech quality BOSS is dis tributed with a fully functional German speech synthesizer BOSS_DE Nevertheless to adapt BOSS to languages other than German de velopers will have to provide their own speech data as well as some language specific synthesis modules 1 2 Credits e BOSS server and libraries Karlheinz St ber Stefan Breuer J rg Br ggelwirth Philip Gro Michal Holcik Harald Ketzer Mathijs Visser e BOSS clients Christian Wei Thilo Goldschmitz Matthias Albrecht J rg Br ggelwirth Michal Holcik Stefan Breuer e Corpora PetraWagner Lioba Faust Michael Mennen Daniela Schwill Julia Abresch Nadja Holder Amanda Wildner Meike Paulson Katja Carapezza Harald Ketzer Valeska Maus Bianca Aschenberner Wen zel Borucki Boris Glawe Karlheinz St ber Esther Klabbers Stefan Breuer e Website s and Sourceforge presence
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