[hts-users:00788] Re: Flatness of Pitch on HTS

[Carlos Mendes <cmdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Checked it ...

thanks Heiga

Carlos Mendes

p.s.- sorry to mention the subject again ...

Heiga ZEN (Byung Ha CHUN) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Carlos Mendes wrote (2007/09/18 20:03):
>
>> Recently I've been trying to use HTS with Portuguese voices. I'm using
>> the training script used in one of your HTS Demos, and found my results
>> a little bit curious, mainly the flatness of the pitch during the entire
>> utterance. I has expecting some pitch smoothing, but not so accented.
>> The HMM based voices that I've heard so far, have good intonation, not
>> almost flat as I obtained. I ended up solving this by manually adjust
>> the pitch mean and standard deviation to compensate the effect( using
>> HTS arguments), and the result sounded much more natural ( I don't like
>> this ... looks like a nasty hack ...).
>> I've also noticed that the pitch is not the only problem ... the segment
>> durations seam a little bit quasi-constant too... ( I haven't extracted
>> any information to background this... yet... )
>>
>> Since I'm new to HMM based synthesis... I guess my questions would have
>> to be... Is this normal or is it possible that I'm doing something
>> terribly wrong? and if this is normal can anyone explain me why it
>> happens?
>
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> Regards,
>
> Heiga ZEN (Byung Ha CHUN)
>