[hts-users:03940] Re:

[Dietmar Schabus <schabus@xxxxxx>]

On 2013-11-20 05:31, Lilly Christina wrote:
> I have few basic doubts in HTS.
> In HTS demo, what is the significance of the raw files being used in
> 48kHz sampling rate?

It has been shown that sampling rates higher than the "usual" 16 kHz can 
improve speaker similarity in synthetic voices, see this paper:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495562

The experiments in the paper actually use 44.1 kHz, but this somewhat 
odd number stems from compact discs, which is not relevant for us I 
guess (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/44,100_Hz for a nice explanation).

Best, Dietmar

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