[hts-users:02019] Re: Using parent transforms during speaker adaptation

["Hui LIANG (Tienshyang)" <tshlmail-hts@xxxxxxxxx>]

By the way, I am not sure if the parent (loaded by -E & -W) and input (loaded by -J & -Y) transforms have to share the same regresstion tree and base classes.

Thanks,
Hui LIANG


--- On Mon, 15/6/09, Hui LIANG (Tienshyang) <tshlmail-hts@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Hui LIANG (Tienshyang) <tshlmail-hts@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Using parent transforms during speaker adaptation
> To: hts-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Monday, 15 June, 2009, 6:36 PM
> 
> Hello, everyone,
> 
> I am trying to introduce a set of parent transforms into
> speaker adaptation. I notice that HERest has two options, -E
> and -W, relavant to parent transforms.
> 
> Suppose I have already had an HERest command which works
> well for speaker adaptation without parent transforms.
> Besides, I have parent regression trees, parent base classes
> and parent xforms in the folder "parentdir". Is it enough
> that I simply add "-E ./parentdir cmp.cmllr -W ./parentdir
> dur.cmllr -E ./parentdir -W ./parentdir" into the HERest
> command so as to do speaker adaptation with parent
> transforms? Do I have to modify any configuration files or
> to do anything else?
> 
> Currently, an error message seems to imply that HERest
> didn't find the parent regression trees and the parent base
> classes.
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> --
> Hui LIANG