[hts-users:01657] HMM state tying

Subject: [hts-users:01657] HMM state tying

From: "Mirko Vladic" <mirko.vladic@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:28:04 +0200

Delivered-to: hts-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Dkim-signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type; bh=zR2tGP7IUQhdvfj9svaGiEzRClB/Y+b6i5fB3zyZOnY=; b=Iv0rB8wWU/ah9jKsJ8g+K3Mr5w+Hj4YgjptarjmuoHCskbUGtr1Pn+cmDFua+4lS/0 4DiCx/le+o2KKqWoW/96UCJVYmPBEW2+QdF3KMpSMdSCTxqR60xnez/a5A73ApLoHSrS 1yM1h22b/yAjKsGiUtNLKgAp2F4ZvuveSGgIQ=

Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=fE71WjAJtzoV7cKs5kmD1GrSjABqWqAS8sTodr9pTaVqorKAO2dTY0E0QGd3YO77St GXhutQPnGnZ953R7S8AmLMPbuf7Z437NWd7LUvoKsozK65plnhU6TxiNMlJv204yuc/O CYDLkDjbRpbo6m45aq07qFcmyKTCy2WSIIqQ0=

Hello.

I am an graduate student and I would like to make a HMM Serbian tts system for a student project. I have some knowledge in speech recognition modeling with HTK HMMs.

I used the HTS demo scripts for building an English TTS based on arctict database. I have problems with the file questions*.hed, which is used for EN state phonetic tying. I understand the 1. part of the file which includes questions with phoneme features (wovels, consonants,...). I believe that the second part uses some questions for F0 and duration, is that true ? I already have questions with phoneme features for my language, but none for F0 and duration. Is there a tool which I could use to generate those questions?

I looked at many articles wchich feature HMM TTS syntesis, but there is still one thing I don't fully understand. In the demo I saw some label files which are used as input for voice syntethization (Alice*.lab). In the files I have seen the phonetic trancription and also other parameters. Are these parameters also used in HMM TTS?

Thanks in advance,

Best reagrds,

Mirko Vladic