> 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:
>
> ===============================================================================
> Start synthesizing waveforms using hts_engine at Sun Apr 1 07:19:54 IST
> 2012
> ===============================================================================
>
> 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
>
> ===============================================================================
> Start synthesizing waveforms using hts_engine at Mon Apr 2 12:04:21 IST
> 2012
> ===============================================================================
>
> 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