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[hts-users:00047] Re: hts_engine binary format


Hi Elliot, 

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 11:24:21 -0400
"Elliot Moore" <em80@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> What is the purpose of the hts_engine conversion?  
> What exactly is it changing in the HTK formatted mmf that is so important?
> It doesn't seem to make a difference if that step is skipped and the speech signals are synthesized.

The main purpose of the hts_engine conversion is to reduce the size of acoustic models.
HTK mmf format contains too much information for HMM-based speech synthesis.

> I need to know because I haven't been including that step in a multi-speaker
> recognition/synthesis application and the synthesized speech so far as been unintelligible.  
> I want to make sure that this isn't the reason and I want to know what the hts_engine is anyway.

I think it isn't the reason. 

Best regards,

Heiga Zen / Byung-Ha Chun

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  Heiga Zen     (in Japanese pronunciation)
  Byung-Ha Chun (in Korean pronunciation)

  Department of Computer Science and Engineering
  Graduate School of Engineering
  Nagoya Institute of Technology
  Japan

  e-mail: zen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
     web: http://kt-lab.ics.nitech.ac.jp/~zen
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References
[hts-users:00044] hts_engine binary format, Matthew Lee
[hts-users:00045] Re: hts_engine binary format, Heiga Zen / Byung-Ha Chun
[hts-users:00046] Re: hts_engine binary format, Elliot Moore