[hts-users:01471] Re: Trying new language on HTS

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

Thank you, Nicholas.
The output from using -s 16000 is still in the same length.
I'm still considering about the size of our train set.
Should it be larger than 509 sentences?

Best regards,

Anocha

> I'm curious about the sample rate. Is 8000 the native sample rate of
> your speech data? Try -s 16000.
>
> br,
>   Nicholas
>
>>
>>> 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,
>>>
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