[hts-users:01634] Re: clipping

["Nicholas Volk" <nvolk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I think you'll need the gv weight only when training sentences with
hts_engine. You certainly don't have to do everything again. Just comment
out unnecessary phases from scripts/Config.pm. (Earlier phases that don't
use GVWEIGHT.)

br,
  Nicholas


> Thank you very much for out help. I read the GV paper and looks awesome.
> I set the GVWEIGHT to 0.5 but now the voice a very small amplitude :)
> I'll keep tunning this. It is a pity that the whole training procedure
> has to be re-run again when you change this setting.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> --
> Jordi Adell
>
> Nicholas Volk escribió:
>> Just reduce the GV factor from 1.0 to an appropriate level for your
>> voice,
>> say 0.5. (Or set it 0.0 and use beta with 0.3 or something like that.)
>>
>> (Using global variance usually improves the overall quality a lot IMHO.)
>>
>> br,
>>   Nicholas
>>
>>
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> 	I'm a newbie in using HTS. I've been working with HTS for some months
>>> and finally I got some audio files using label information generated by
>>> our own prosodic model. However, the audio files are clipped. You can
>>> guess the expected sentence under the noise, although. Even the alice
>>> files that the demo script generates for testing are clipped. Many
>>> values go further than the integer maximum.
>>>
>>> 	I assumed that *raw files in hts are 16000 Khz and 16 bits signed
>>> integer.
>>>
>>> 	I'm running HTK 3.4 and HTS 2.1 and HTS engine 1.0
>>> 	in a 64 bits little endian machine with windows server 2003
>>> 	and cygwin.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
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>>> Jordi Adell
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
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> Jordi Adell
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> Signal Processing Section
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