[hts-users:02136] Re: hts_engine_API-1.01 + flite

[Keiichiro Oura <uratec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Maybe, many techniques are used in festival online demo.
For example...

H. Zen, T. Toda, M. Nakamura, and K. Tokuda, “Details of
Nitech HMM-based speech synthesis system for the Blizzard
Challenge 2005,” IEICE Trans. Inf.&Syst., vol. E90-
D, no. 1, pp. 325–333, 2007.

If the quality of HTS2005 is required, you can download demo scripts for model training from HTS web site.
http://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp/archives/2.1/HTS-demo_CMU-ARCTIC-SLT+STRAIGHT.tar.bz2

Regards,
Keiichiro Oura

Stas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using * flite + hts_engine_API-1.01+ hts_voice_arctic_slt-1.00 
> <http://downloads.sourceforge.net/hts-engine/hts_voice_arctic_slt-1.00.tar.gz>* 
> from http://hts-engine.sourceforge.net <http://hts-engine.sourceforge.net/>.
>
> However, I can not get the same synthesized speech quality as in HTS demos
> on festival online demos, 
> (http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/morevoices.html), using the 
> same voice.
> The synthesized speech sounds much more buzzy.
>
> 1) How can I synthesis speech, using flite + hts_engine_API-1.01+ 
> hts_voice_arctic_slt-1.00 
> <http://downloads.sourceforge.net/hts-engine/hts_voice_arctic_slt-1.00.tar.gz> 
> with the same quality
>     as in the demos?
>
> 2) What speech encoder is used in hts_engine_API-1.01?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Stas