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<h3 class="section">21.3 Group files</h3>
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<p>Databases may be accessed directly but this is usually too inefficient
for any purpose except debugging. It is expected that <em>group
files</em> will be built which contain a binary representation of the
database. A group file is a compact efficient representation of the
diphone database. Group files are byte order independent, so may be
shared between machines of different byte orders and word sizes.
Certain information in a group file may be changed at load time so a
database name, access strategy etc. may be changed from what was set
originally in the group file.
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<p>A group file contains the basic parameters, the diphone index, the
signal (original waveform or LPC residual), LPC coefficients, and the
pitch marks. It is all you need for a run-time synthesizer.
Various compression mechanisms are supported to allow smaller databases
if desired. A full English LPC plus residual database at 8k ulaw
is about 3 megabytes, while a full 16 bit version at 16k is about
8 megabytes.
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<p>Group files are created with the <code>Diphone.group</code> command which
takes a database name and an output filename as an argument. Making
group files can take some time especially if they are large. The
<code>group_type</code> parameter specifies <code>raw</code> or <code>ulaw</code>
for encoding signal files. This can significantly reduce the size
of databases.
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<p>Group files may be partially loaded (see access strategies) at
run time for quicker start up and to minimise run-time
memory requirements.
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