[hts-users:00149] Re: two questions about HTS

["Heiga ZEN (Byung Ha CHUN)" <zen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

jiangyua@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 1.  When I compile \\HTS-demo_CMU-ARCTIC-AWB
> <file:///\\HTS-demo_CMU-ARCTIC-AWB> , the script of utt2lab.sh said:
>
> HTS-demo_CMU-ARCTIC-AWB/scripts/label.feats: (No such file or directory)
>
> HTS-demo_CMU-ARCTIC-AWB/scripts/label-full.awk: (No such file or directory)
>
> HTS-demo_CMU-ARCTIC-AWB/scripts/label-mono.awk: (No such file or directory)
>
> So how could I find or build these three files?

These files are automatically generated by running utt2lab.sh which is also automatically created by running

% make init

> 2. The example of context-dependent label format mentions “gPOS”,
> what’s the different between POS and gPOS, and where could I find same
> introductions of gPOS ?

gPOS is "guess Part-Of-Speech," broad class of POS.
We investigated effects of POS on synthetic speech quality in several languages (e.g., Japanese, Portuguese, Mandarin) 
and found that broad class of POS was important but detail was not.

Regards,

Heiga ZEN (Byung Ha CHUN)

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  Byung-Ha CHUN (in Korean)

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  Graduate School of Engineering
  Nagoya Institute of Technology
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