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[hts-users:00074] Re: Cannot open file [...] as tokenstream


Hi Mike, welcome to hts-users ML!

Mike Schiraldi wrote:

I'm running Debian Linux (specifically, an up-to-date version of the
"testing" distribution). I installed festival via dpkg and downloaded cmu_us_slt_arctic_hts.tar.gz and cmu_us_awb_arctic_hts.tar.gz.

I unzipped these files, and moved the "us" directory to my
/usr/share/festival/voices directory (which already existed and had other
voices installed in directories named "english" and "spanish")

However, when i try to test, i get the following:

festival> (voice_cmu_us_awb_arctic_hts ) cmu_us_awb_arctic_hts
festival> (SayText "Test.")
Cannot open file /tmp/est_30819_00000/utt.wav as tokenstream
Wave load: can't open file "/tmp/est_30819_00000/utt.wav"
Cannot load wavefile: /tmp/est_30819_00000/utt.wav
#<Utterance 0x4082a328>

I even recompiled hts_engine and copied it to
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_slt_arctic_hts/hts and
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_awb_arctic_hts/hts but i still get the
same problem. I made sure that the binary looked okay:

$ /usr/share/fl/voices/us/cmu_us_awb_arctic_hts/hts/hts_engine hts_engine - A compact HMM-based speech synthesis engine
  usage:
       hts_engine [ options ] [ infile ] > stdout
[...]

Did i follow the right installation procedure? Has anyone else seen this
problem? Any suggestions for figuring out the root cause of the problem?

Are "sox", "perl" & "awk" installed in your environment ?
HTS voices need them.

You are using festival-1.4.x, aren't you ?
I recommend you to use latest festival release (festival-1.95beta).
In this version, "hts_engine" is integrated as a module into festival,
and the hts voices trained by CMU ARCTIC database are included.
You can download it at http://www.festvox.org/festival/index.html.

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:00073] Cannot open file [...] as tokenstream, Mike Schiraldi