[hts-users:00490] Re: HTK 2.0 hts_engine problem

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

Hi,

Nicholas Volk wrote:

> I'm able to build new voices (pdf and inf files) with hts 2.0 but I'm not
> able to produce speech files with hts_engine. I have built a new voice
> with 2.0 that works with older hts_engines (v. 1.1.1 or so). Similar
> problems exists with the downloadable voices. I loaded the RMS voice and
> tried tpo use it with:
>
> $ cd ~/festival/lib/voices/us/nitech_us_rms_arctic_hts/hts
> $ ~/htk-3.4/hts_engine/hts_engine -td trees-dur.inf -tf trees-lf0.inf -tm
> trees-mcep.inf -md duration.pdf -mm mcep.pdf -mf lf0.pdf -df lf0.win1 -df
> lf0.win2 -df lf0.win3 -dm mcp.win1 -dm mcp.win2 -dm mcp.win3 -or foo.raw
> -ot trace.txt alice01.lab
>
> (lab, inf and pdf files taken from SLT example)
>
> The raw file is successfully created but the content is not what I'd
> expect. Can some produce speech with the above commands (or similar) or
> does someone have an idea what's wrong with them?

Downloadable voices are in little endian because Festival 1.95 & 1.96 are based on old hts_engine (1.1).
In the current version (~/htk-3.4/hts_engine/hts_engine) model files (.pdf files) must be in big endian.

It should be noted that format of window coefficients files is changed.
In the previous versions window files are in binary but in the current version window files should be in ascii.
Please check endian and window file format of your files.

Regards,

Heiga ZEN (Byung Ha CHUN) 

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Byung Ha CHUN (in Korean pronunciation)

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Nagoya Institute of Technology
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