[hts-users:03248] HTS-demo_CMU-ARCTIC-ADAPT: new target speaker / hts_engine files not correctly generated

[Pierre-Edouard Honnet <cerbrain@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I have 2 questions about the HTS demo for speaker adaptation:

- I managed to change the target speaker for the adaptation choosing one of the 6 speakers from CMU Arctic database, however I would like to adapt the average model to another speaker. The problem is that I don't have the same sentences in my own database, and it seems that I can't use my labels for this script. Here is the error I get:

Processing Data: CLCS_SCL_AF430013_04.cmp; Label CLCS_SCL_AF430013_04.lab

  ERROR [+7321]  CreateInsts: Unknown label x^x-pau+ay=w@x_x/A:0_0_0/B:x-x-x@x-x&x-x#x-x$x-x!x-x;x-x|x/C:1+1+1/D:0_0/E:x+x@x+x&x+x#x+x/F:content_1/G:0_0/H:x=x@1=3|0/I:5=5/J:14+13-3

 FATAL ERROR - Terminating program /usr/local/HTS-2.2beta/bin/HERest

So I wonder if my problem is that I have some unseen phone association (but when I looked at full.list it seems that they are in the list) and how I could solve this problem or if it is not possible to adapt the voice with other labels than the ones of CMU database ? (in the latter case, is there simple solutions to adapt with non parallel corpus ?)

- At the step when mmfs should be converted to the hts_engine file format, it seems that there is a problem although I didn't change the script, and in the last step when synthesizing the waveforms using hts_engine I got a problem, even if I try to use different versions of hts_engine, I guess that the script was written for a previous version of hts_engine (using different header) and that this part has not been adapted. Here is the error using hts_engine 1.06:

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Start synthesizing waveforms using hts_engine at Sun Apr  1 07:19:54 IST 2012

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Synthesizing a speech waveform from /home/fred/peh/HTS-demo_CMU-ARCTIC-ADAPT/data/labels/gen/cmu_us_arctic_slt_alice01.lab using hts_engine...

Error: HTS_Model_load_pdf: Failed to load header of pdfs.

I get the same error with hts_engine 1.05, and this one with hts_engine 1.00

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Start synthesizing waveforms using hts_engine at Mon Apr  2 12:04:21 IST 2012

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Synthesizing a speech waveform from /home/fred/peh/HTS-demo_CMU-ARCTIC-ADAPT/data/labels/gen/cmu_us_arctic_slt_alice01.lab using hts_engine...

Error: HTS_Model_load_pdf: MSD weight should be within 0.0 to 1.0.

Maybe someone has a solution to this problem?

Regards,

Pierre-Edouard Honnet