[hts-users:00415] Re: Unseen triphones

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

Hi,

Zuko Fani wrote:

> Can this error be caused by me not using the phoneset defined by the
> radio corpus (festival/lib/radio_phones.scm). I used my own phoneset. 
>
> AU /home/sid/Zulu/HTS-demo_CMU-ARCTIC-SLT/HTS-demo_CMU-ARCTIC-SLT.RC2/data/lists/full_all.list
>  Creating HMMset using trees to add unseen triphones
>   ERROR [+2662]  FindProtoModel: no proto for
> x^pau-ih+n=ax@1_2/A:0_0_0/B:0-0-2@1-1&1-13#1-8$1-4!0-2;0-4|ih/C:0+0+2/D:0_0/E:in+1@1+8&1+4#0+2/F:det_3/G:0_0/H:13=8@1=3|L-H%/I:9=5/J:31+21-3
> in hSet

It means that there is no "*-ih+*" model in your *training* data.

> Do I have to also change questions.hed from the data folder to include
> characteristics of my phoneset. 

Yes, questions.hed in HTS-demo is designed for ARCTIC database.
If you want to use your own databases, phonesets, or contexts, you should modify questions to achieve better synthesized speech.

Best regards,

Heiga Zen (Byung Ha Chun)

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Byung Ha CHUN (in Korean pronunciation)

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Nagoya Institute of Technology
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