[hts-users:02359] Re: Questions about brazilian demo

[Carlos Souza <carlosfss@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I've done the forced alignment and produced the monophones to train
the HTS brazilian demo. It works well, but now i have another problem,
the synthesized voice is a kind of paused, not continuous, as if i had
written a phase with words separated by commas. Consequently, when it
have to had comma, the pause isn't percepted.

Does anyone has faced this problem?

Thanks all,
Best Regards,

--
Carlos F. S. Souza
carlosfss@xxxxxxxxx


On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Ranniery Maia
<ranniery.maia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Carlos
>
> If you have your own G2P you may try running it on your database. Once
> you have your entire data labeled you can try forced alignment using HTK.
>
> This G2P for BP is free and its phone set is exactly the same as the one
> employed by the BP HTS-demo, except for the augmented phones /tS/ and /dZ/
> (the affricates):
>
> http://www.laps.ufpa.br/falabrasil/files/ConversorGrafema-fone1.3.rar
>
> I have never used Sphinx so I don't know if it works smooth or not.
>
> Hope it helps.
> Regards
>
> Ranniery
>
> ----------------------------
> Ranniery Maia
> Speech Technology Group
> Toshiba Research Europe LTD
> Tel: +44 1223 436974
>
>
>
> Carlos Souza wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for your reply, Ranniery,
>>
>> I'm happy to know that Brazilian demo is not a "dead one" as other guy
>> told. I'm trying to train HTS with another voice, but i'm having some
>> problems to create monophone label files.
>> Now i'm trying to create this with EHMM Labeller, but i still have no
>> sucess. Is there another way to create it? or using another tool, like
>> Sphinx?
>>
>> What's the better way to create this?
>>
>> Thanks about your attention,
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Carlos F. S. Souza
>> carlosfss@xxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Ranniery Maia
>> <ranniery.maia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> There is nothing about "dead one" regarding the Brazilian demo. The
>>> intention is the best possible. The basic difference between the BP and
>>> English demos is that the
>>> latter uses Festival utterance files whereas the previous one has its own
>>> utterance file format. And that is because the text processor which
>>> generated the utterances
>>> files for BP is not free and there is nothing we can do about that.
>>> Therefore, if you intend to train HTS for a different BP voice you have
>>> to
>>> produce:
>>>
>>> 1) monophone label files with time boundaries and place them in
>>> data/labels/mono
>>>
>>> 2) use your own text processor to generate the utterance files and put
>>> them
>>> in data/utterinfo using the same format (which is not difficult once you
>>> have a G2P + a
>>> stress marker + a rough POS tagger).
>>>
>>> That should be just fine. But if you intend to wait, we have been
>>> negotiating with the HTS maintainer the release of a new version of the
>>> BP
>>> demo, this one based on
>>> Festival.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>>
>>> Ranniery
>>>
>>> ----------------------------
>>> Ranniery Maia
>>> Speech Technology Group
>>> Toshiba Research Europe LTD
>>> Tel: +44 1223 436974
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Luis Uebel wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Oi Carlos,
>>>>
>>>> A pessoa responsável pelo  HTS para portugues nunca liberou o código ou
>>>> maiores explicações de como
>>>> fez o  sistema ou qual o T2P que utilizou.
>>>> É como os americanos chamam de dead one, ou seja, sem saída. Ele não
>>>> quer
>>>> ou não sabe como implementou.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Luís Felipe Uebel
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  > Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:05:50 -0300
>>>>  > From: carlosfss@xxxxxxxxx
>>>>  > Subject: [hts-users:02328] Questions about brazilian demo
>>>>  > To: hts-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>  >
>>>>  > Hi all,
>>>>  >
>>>>  > I've downloaded the brazilian demo of HTS and trainned it as well.
>>>>  > After that, when i was analysing and comparing it to english demo, i
>>>>  > saw that the utt files format are a kind of different.
>>>>  > I'd like to train HTS with another voice, that i recorded, and when i
>>>>  > tried to, i saw that files in folder "data/labels/mono" aren't
>>>>  > generated, and it's necessary to going on the process.
>>>>  > The brazilian demo still comes with this to their respective raws
>>>>  > files, and don't create or show how to get it.
>>>>  > English demo generate this ones using the utt files, that are in a
>>>>  > different format that is in brazilian's.
>>>>  >
>>>>  > Does anyone has faced this problem?
>>>>  >
>>>>  > Thanks a lot,
>>>>  > Regards,
>>>>  >
>>>>  > --
>>>>  > Carlos F. S. Souza
>>>>  > carlosfss@xxxxxxxxx
>>>>  >
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