[hts-users:04020] Re: Building Sinsy voice

[Keiichiro Oura <uratec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

> I was wondering; is building the  "HTS-demo_NIT-SONG070-F001" training demo
> is supposed to result in same voice as the
> "hts_voice_nitech_jp_song070_f001-0.90" downloadable pre-build binary for
> Sinsy?

No.
One of the main differences is the size of training data.
Only 31 songs (32min., *public domain*) are included in the demo scripts.
On the other hand, the HTS voice of http://sinsy.sourceforge.net is
trained by using 70 songs (72min.).

Regards,
Keiichiro Oura


2014-03-02 23:22 GMT+09:00 Merlijn Blaauw <merlijn.blaauw@xxxxxxx>:
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering; is building the  "HTS-demo_NIT-SONG070-F001" training demo
> is supposed to result in same voice as the
> "hts_voice_nitech_jp_song070_f001-0.90" downloadable pre-build binary for
> Sinsy?
>
> I tried to build the demo, but the file size of the resulting .htsvoice file
> and synthesis results are very different from the pre-build voice.
> In particular pitch (and breath sounds) seems to be modeled very poorly;
> timbre seems more or less ok (although it is kind of hard to tell).
> The "gen" phrases synthesized as part of the training script also do not
> sound very good.
>
> I'm using the following software: HTS 2.3alpha, HTS-demo_NIT-SONG070-F001
> from HTS 2.3alpha (slightly modified to fix raw2wav sample rate issue), SPTK
> 3.7, sinsy 0.90, hts_engine 1.08 .
>
> Thank you very much.
> Merlijn
>