[hts-users:00363] Re: HTS-2.0RC1

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

Sorry, the title of the last mail should be "HTS-2.0RC2" rather than "HTS-2.0RC1"

Regards,

Heiga Zen (Byung Ha CHun)

Heiga ZEN (Byung Ha CHUN) wrote:
> Dear members of hts-users mailing list,
> 
> 
> HTS working group would like to release the second release candidate for upcoming HTS-2.0 and a demonstration.
> They can be downloaded from
> 
> HTS-2.0RC2_for_HTK-3.4-alpha.patch: http://kt-lab.ics.nitech.ac.jp/~zen/HTS-2.0RC2_for_HTK-3.4-alpha.patch.gz
> (161841 bytes, MD5 checksum: c02b1034cc3bfae6e6e8ab9226f9c60c)
> 
> HTS-demo_CMU-ARCTIC-SLT.tar.gz:  http://kt-lab.ics.nitech.ac.jp/~zen/HTS-demo_CMU-ARCTIC-SLT.tar.gz
> (96259404 bytes, MD5 checksum 76d49d8e1209c450a1660dde5d1a0cd8)
> 
> 
> Differences between RC1 and RC2 are as follows:
> 
>  - Based on HTK-3.4-alpha
>  - Many fixed bugs (HAdapt, HTrain, HFB, HGen, HHEd, HMGenS, HERest) 
>  - HMGenS_align (http://kt-lab.ics.nitech.ac.jp/hts-users/spool/2004/msg00026.html) is integrated to HMGenS
>  - Input/Output of binary double is implemented
>  - Miscellaneous changes
> 
> HTS-2.0RC1 has fatal bugs in voiced/unvoiced handling and EM-based parameter generation (HGen.c), so please *do not use* it!!
> 
> 
> This version is released as a patch code to HTK-3.4-alpha (http://htk.eng.cam.ac.uk/).
> You can download it from the following addresses:
> 
> HTK 3.4 (alpha) download:
> http://htk.eng.cam.ac.uk/ftp/software/HTK-3.4-alpha.tar.gz
> 
> HDecode:
> See extensions page on HTK website - 
> http://htk.eng.cam.ac.uk/extensions/index.shtml
> 
> After downloading HTK-3.4-alpha, HDecode and HTS-2.0RC2 patch code, please expand them and apply the patch code on htk-3.4 directory as
> follows:
> 
>  htk-3.4% patch -p1 -d . < HTS-2.0RC2_for_HTK-3.4-alpha.patch
> 
> Then please run configure and make.
> 
> 
> Festival Speech Synthesis System (http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/download.html) and SPTK
> (http://kt-lab.ics.nitech.ac.jp/~tokuda/SPTK/index.html) are required to run the demonstration.
> Please download, configure, make, and install them.
> 
> Many people have asked us about F0 extraction, so from this release we decided to include a F0 extraction program using get_f0.
> Fortunately, get_f0 function have been included in the open-source speech toolkit *Snack* (http://www.speech.kth.se/snack/).
> In the release we include a Tcl/Tk script to call get_f0 function from Snack.
> Therefore, you also have to install Tcl/Tk and Snack on your environment to run the demonstration.
> ActiveState (http://www.activestate.com/) freely provides a Tcl/Tk distribution named ActiveTcl for many platforms (http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActiveTcl/?mp=1).
> This distribution includes Snack and it is easy to install and use.
> I recommend you to use this for running the demonstration (Actually I use it).  
> 
> After expanding HTS-demo_CMU-ARCTIC-SLT.tar.gz, please run configure.
> If your PATH variable does not include SPTK, Festival, tclsh (with Snack) and HTS binary directory, please run configure as follows:
> 
> $ PATH=/usr/local/SPTK/bin:/usr/local/HTS-2.0RC1_for_HTK-3.3/bin.linux:/usr/local/festival/examples:/usr/local/Activetcl/bin:$PATH ./configure
> 
> Then run make.
> After composing training data, training script will be run in background.
> 
> 
> This is release *candidate*, it may contain a number of bugs or problems.
> We are planning to release the final version in this summer.
> Any bug reports or comments are highly appreciated, please mail to hts-users mailing list.
> I'm looking forward to hearing from you :-)
> 
> 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
 Nagoya Institute of Technology
 Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555 Japan

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