[hts-users:04319] Re: Style Adaptation Issue with HTS-ARCTIC_ADAPT demo

[Keiichiro Oura <uratec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Could you try to use STRAIGHT for analysis and CMLLR for adaptation ?

Regards,
Keiichiro Oura



2015-10-15 7:41 GMT+09:00 ammarah din <ammarah.din68@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi All,
>      I have used the speaker adaptation demo package to implement "Style
> Adaptation" for Anger emotion by following the paper written by Tachibana,
> Yamagishi, Masuko and Kobayashi: "A Style adaptation technique for speech
> synthesis using HSMM and supra segmental features".  I have successfully
> obtained the style adapted voice by training, however it does not sound as
> emotional as it does when a simple TTS using HSMM is built. Furthermore,
> there is a sudden shriek sound or muffledness due to which some phones get
> swallowed and is really unpleasant to listen to. I think this may be due to
> the FRAMESHIFT and FRAMELEN i am using as its not according to that
> mentioned in paper. Do these factors affect/disturb synthesis? Can anyone
> guide me as to why muffled or shriek sounds are present in synthesized
> speech? How can i improve the system as to increase the style's effect
> (anger/joy) on natural speech? My configuration is as follows:
>
> ./configure DATASET=uet_ur TRAINSPKR=mar_neu ADAPTSPKR=mar_ang ADAPTHEAD=b0
> ALLSPKR='mar_neu mar_ang' F0_RANGES='mar_neu 70 625 mar_ang 77 635' GAMMA=0
> FREQWARP=0.55 FRAMELEN=1440 FRAMESHIFT=288 SAMPFREQ=48000 TRANSKIND=mean
> MGCOCCTHRESH=1000.0 LF0OCCTHRESH=150.0 ADDMAP=0 USESMAP=FALSE
> --with-tcl-search-path=/usr/bin
> --with-fest-search-path=/home/ammarah/Festival_SpeechTools/festival/examples
> --with-sptk-search-path=/usr/local/SPTK/bin
> --with-hts-search-path=/usr/local/HTS-2.2beta/bin
> --with-hts-engine-search-path=/usr/local/bin
>
> Regards,
> Ammarah.