[hts-users:03592] Re: Phoneme duration issues in HTS build voice

[Anil John M <aniljohn80@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah. It is CMU ARCTIC SLT database only, and I use festival as text analyzer.

-Anil

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 10:03 PM, Keiichiro Oura <uratec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

Do you use CMU ARCTIC SLT database?
What is your text analyzer?

Regards,
Keiichiro Oura


2013/2/1 Anil John M <aniljohn80@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi All
>
> I have built a HTS-2.2 voice for English and synthesized some test samples
> with hts_engine_API with the built models. What I keenly observed is, many a
> times the phoneme "AH" sounded with higher duration and that is causing
> unnaturalness.
> Is there any way to correct the (context dependent)  duration models of AH?
> (or)  such an issue can be handled in any other way.
>
> Thank you Sir,
> - Anil