[hts-users:04045] Re: Building Sinsy voice

[Keiichiro Oura <uratec@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Currently, Sinsy (sourceforge ver.) supports only Japanese.

Regards,
Keiichiro Oura



2014-03-03 0:36 GMT+09:00 Suman Senapati <suman.senapati@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi Keiichiro,
>
> Also in http://www.sinsy.jp/ you have both Japanese and English voices demo.
> English was released in Ver 3.3. But in Ver 3.4 you released Japanese. So
> can you please tell me how do we get English Sinsy voice?
>
> Thanks & Regards
>
> suman
>
>
> On 2 March 2014 20:47, Keiichiro Oura <uratec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>> >
>>
>