[hts-users:00212] Re: About questions_qst001.hed in English HTS demo

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

Hi Nicholas,

Nicholas Volk wrote:

> I ran
>
> egrep "[,\{][^\*]|[^\*][,\}]" < questions_qst001.head
>
> to see which questions contain patterns that do not start
> or end with '*'. Then I removed the LL-type questions
> and Num-Phrases_in_Utterance questions.
> This leaves 23 entries listed at the bottom of this message.
> If I'm correct, all of these questions contain at least erronous
> pattern.
> For example in L-Consonant "*^z" lacks the final '*'.

Yes, you are completely right, patterns of these questions are erroneous.
They should be corrected.
I would like to correct them in the next release candidate.
Thank so much, Nicholas :-)

Best regards,

Heiga Zen (Byung Ha Chun)

P.S. The following questions are corrected one.

QS
"L-Consonant"		 
{*^b-*,*^ch-*,*^d-*,*^dh-*,*^dx-*,*^f-*,*^g-*,*^hh-*,*^hv-*,*^jh-*,*^k-*,*^l-*,*^m-*,*^n-*,*^nx-*,*^ng-*,*^p-*,*^r-*,*^s-*,*^sh-*,*^t-*,*^th-*,*^v-*,*^w-*,*^y-*,*^z-*,*^zh-*}
QS
"C-Consonant"		 
{*-b+*,*-ch+*,*-d+*,*-dh+*,*-dx+*,*-f+*,*-g+*,*-hh+*,*-hv+*,*-jh+*,*-k+*,*-l+*,*-m+*,*-n+*,*-nx+*,*-ng+*,*-p+*,*-r+*,*-s+*,*-sh+*,*-t+*,*-th+*,*-v+*,*-w+*,*-y+*,*-z+*,*-zh+*}
QS
"R-Consonant"		 
{*+b=*,*+ch=*,*+d=*,*+dh=*,*+dx=*,*+f=*,*+g=*,*+hh=*,*+hv=*,*+jh=*,*+k=*,*+l=*,*+m=*,*+n=*,*+nx=*,*+ng=*,*+p=*,*+r=*,*+s=*,*+sh=*,*+t=*,*+th=*,*+v=*,*+w=*,*+y=*,*+z=*,*+zh=*}
QS
"RR-Consonant"		 
{*=b@*,*=ch@*,*=d@*,*=dh@*,*=dx@*,*=f@*,*=g@*,*=hh@*,*=hv@*,*=jh@*,*=k@*,*=l@*,*=m@*,*=n@*,*=nx@*,*=ng@*,*=p@*,*=r@*,*=s@*,*=sh@*,*=t@*,*=th@*,*=v@*,*=w@*,*=y@*,*=z@*,*=zh@*}
QS "C-Syl_Front_Vowel"		{*|ae/C:*,*|eh/C:*,*|ey/C:*,*|ih/C:*,*|iy/C:*}
QS "C-Syl_Central_Vowel"	{*|aa/C:*,*|ah/C:*,*|ao/C:*,*|axr/C:*,*|er/C:*}
QS "C-Syl_Back_Vowel"		{*|ax/C:*,*|ow/C:*,*|uh/C:*,*|uw/C:*}
QS
"C-Syl_Long_Vowel"		{*|ao/C:*,*|aw/C:*,*|el/C:*,*|em/C:*,*|en/C:*,*|en/C:*,*|iy/C:*,*|ow/C:*,*|uw/C:*}
QS
"C-Syl_Short_Vowel"		{*|aa/C:*,*|ah/C:*,*|ax/C:*,*|ay/C:*,*|eh/C:*,*|ey/C:*,*|ih/C:*,*|ix/C:*,*|oy/C:*,*|uh/C:*}
QS
"C-Syl_Dipthong_Vowel"	{*|aw/C:*,*|axr/C:*,*|ay/C:*,*|el/C:*,*|em/C:*,*|en/C:*,*|er/C:*,*|ey/C:*,*|oy/C:*}
QS "C-Syl_Front_Start"		{*|aw/C:*,*|axr/C:*,*|er/C:*,*|ey/C:*}
QS "C-Syl_Fronting_Vowel"	{*|ay/C:*,*|ey/C:*,*|oy/C:*}
QS "C-Syl_High_Vowel"		{*|ih/C:*,*|ix/C:*,*|iy/C:*,*|uh/C:*,*|uw/C:*}
QS
"C-Syl_Medium_Vowel"		{*|ae/C:*,*|ah/C:*,*|ax/C:*,*|axr/C:*,*|eh/C:*,*|el/C:*,*|em/C:*,*|en/C:*,*|er/C:*,*|ey/C:*,*|ow/C:*}
QS "C-Syl_Low_Vowel"		{*|aa/C:*,*|ae/C:*,*|ah/C:*,*|ao/C:*,*|aw/C:*,*|ay/C:*,*|oy/C:*}
QS "C-Syl_Rounded_Vowel"	{*|ao/C:*,*|ow/C:*,*|oy/C:*,*|uh/C:*,*|uw/C:*,*|w/C:*}
QS
"C-Syl_Unrounded_Vowel" 
{*|aa/C:*,*|ae/C:*,*|ah/C:*,*|aw/C:*,*|ax/C:*,*|axr/C:*,*|ay/C:*,*|eh/C:*,*|el/C:*,*|em/C:*,*|en/C:*,*|er/C:*,*|ey/C:*,*|hh/C:*,*|ih/C:*,*|ix/C:*,*|iy/C:*,*|l/C:*,*|r/C:*,*|y/C:*}
QS "C-Syl_Reduced_Vowel"	{*|ax/C:*,*|axr/C:*,*|ix/C:*}
QS "C-Syl_IVowel"			{*|ih/C:*,*|ix/C:*,*|iy/C:*}
QS "C-Syl_EVowel"			{*|eh/C:*,*|ey/C:*}
QS "C-Syl_AVowel"			{*|aa/C:*,*|ae/C:*,*|aw/C:*,*|axr/C:*,*|ay/C:*,*|er/C:*}
QS "C-Syl_OVowel"			{*|ao/C:*,*|ow/C:*,*|oy/C:*}
QS "C-Syl_UVowel"			{*|ah/C:*,*|ax/C:*,*|el/C:*,*|em/C:*,*|en/C:*,*|uh/C:*,*|uw/C:*}

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  Heiga ZEN     (in Japanese pronunciation)
  Byung-Ha CHUN (in Korean pronunciation)

  Department of Computer Science and Engineering
  Nagoya Institute of Technology
  Japan

  web: http://kt-lab.ics.nitech.ac.jp/~zen
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