[hts-users:00492] Re: HTK 2.0 hts_engine problem

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

Hi,

Nicholas Volk wrote:

> When I comment the byte swapping line in misc.cpp
> I get the problem I described in my earlier mail:
>
>    //HTS_ByteSwap(p, size, block);
>
> If the line is uncommented I get an error:
> "Error: LoadModelFiles: #duration pdf must be positive value (-419364864)."
>
> I think that the error is caused by endianism.

You're right, I think this error is caused by endian.

> Thus I'd expect the commented version work fine, but the content
> of the created raw is not really speech.

Please check whether generated mel-cepstral coefficients and log F0 values are good or not.

> My windows should be ok:
>
> $ for i in `ls *win?`; do echo $i; cat $i; done
> lf0.win1
> 1 1.0
> lf0.win2
> 3 -0.5 0.0 0.5
> lf0.win3
> 3 1.0 -2.0 1.0
> mcp.win1
> 1 1.0
> mcp.win2
> 3 -0.5 0.0 0.5
> mcp.win3
> 3 1.0 -2.0 1.0

I think they are OK.

> And a slightly different issue:
> There's a bug in the Festival HTS version of RMS voice (at least):
>
> $ festival                                                                
>      Festival Speech Synthesis System 1.96:beta July 2004                 
>           Copyright (C) University of Edinburgh, 1996-2004. All rights
> reserved.          For details type `(festival_warranty)'
> festival> (voice_nitech_us_rms_arctic_hts )
> SIOD ERROR: unbound variable : ::
> closing a file left open:
> /home/Nicholas/festival/lib/voices/us/nitech_us_rms_arctic_hts/festvox/nitech_us_rms_arctic_hts.scm
>
> (There's a mistyped comment that ought to be ";;".)

Thank you very much for reporting it.
I fixed and uploaded them.

Best regards,

Heiga ZEN (Byung Ha CHUN)

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