[hts-users:03749] Re: How to ask questions with HTS?

[Keiichiro Oura <uratec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

How many interrogative sentences in average voice training data?

Regards,
Keiichiro Oura


2013/5/1 Tóth Bálint <toth.b@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi,
>
> Yes, I include them in the average voice model training.
>
> Sorry, I wasn't completely precise in my last letter. For average voice I
> have (1800 declarative sentences + 300 questions) * 8 speaker. For
> adaptation I have 100 declarative sentence + 100 questions. The modality
> (/K:) context/question is included in the average voice model training and
> in the adaptation as well. I added two questions to the question file:
> 1. Is it a declarative sentence? (/K:0)
> 2. Is it a question? (/K:1)
>
> What else should I pay attention to?
>
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Balint Toth
>
> 2013.05.01. 2:00 keltezéssel, Keiichiro Oura írta:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Do you include /K: contexts/questions to average voice model training?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Keiichiro Oura
>>
>>
>> 2013/4/30 Tóth Bálint <toth.b@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> I would like to make HTS to ask questions. In the training database I
>>> have 8
>>> speakers, 1800 declarative sentence and 300 questions. I make adaptation
>>> with 200 sentences (100 declerative, 100 questions). I included in full
>>> context labels an addition label regarding to the modality of the
>>> sentence
>>> (/K:0 = declarative, /K:1 = question). I included these features in the
>>> question file as well.
>>>
>>> After training and adaptation there are some changes in the intonation in
>>> case of questions, but it is very far from perfect.
>>>
>>> What else should I do to make HTS to ask questions with good intonation?
>>>
>>> Thanks and regards,
>>> Balint Toth
>
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