[hts-users:01466] Re: Trying new language on HTS

["Anocha Rugchatjaroen" <anocha.rugchatjaroen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hi,
>
> Anocha Rugchatjaroen wrote (2008/06/25 16:19):
>
>> We are trying Dzongkha language on HTS. What we have done is training
>> a set of speech using HTS-demo_CMU_ARCTIC_SLT as a template without
>> using DUMPFEATS of festival and setting up a training set as :
>> 	- 53 phonemes ( consonants,  vowels) with 2 tones
>> 	- 509 sentences (cover all diphone)
>> 	- and automatic labeling using htk flat start.
>> After we trained the script, we found that if we use full format of
>> label file for generating speech - like
>>
>> 0       11900001 q_q-$+m=i/A:0
>> 11900000        13300000 q_$-m+i=ph/A:0
>> 13300000        15100000 $_m-i+ph=e/A:0
>> 15100000        16100000 m_i-ph+e=l/A:0
>> 16100000        17000000 i_ph-e+l=ph/A:0
>> ...
>>
>> we can get a good synthesized speech. But if we use only
>>
>> q_q-$+m=i/A:0
>> q_$-m+i=ph/A:0
>> $_m-i+ph=e/A:0
>> m_i-ph+e=l/A:0
>> i_ph-e+l=ph/A:0
>> ...
>>
>> we got very small speech - like a half of a syllable.
>>
>> Did we do anything wrong? Is our number of sentences too small?
>> Could you please suggest us?
>
> Did you use hts_engine or HMGenS?
> Can you show us the command line arguments to generate speech
> parameters?

we use hts_engine as this command.

hts_engine -td tree-dur.inf -tf tree-lf0.inf -tm tree-mcp.inf -md dur.pdf
-mf lf0.pdf -mm mcp.pdf -dm mcp.win1 -dm mcp.w
in2 -dm mcp.win3 -df lf0.win1 -df lf0.win2 -df lf0.win3 -or tmp.raw
tmp.lab  -s 8000 -p 40 -a 0.42 -b 0.4

Best regards,

Anocha

>
> Regards,
>
> Heiga ZEN (Byung Ha CHUN)
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