Hi,
I worked on ASR for many years, but recently we need to build Chinese voices.
I have successfully run the HTS demo for English. I found that HTS actually calls the festvox to convert *.txt files to *.utt files. If I am right, festvox makes use of cmu English dictionary to do this.
My question is, if I have Chinese waves, labels, and dictionary, how can I make festvox convert my *.txt to *.utt ? Or is there tutorial on how to set up new languages using HTS?
Another concern is, do I need to add questions on tones for the Chinese decision tree since it is a toning language?
I know these are old questions, but I can't find answer from the history threads (forgive my poor experience on TTS). Hope you can help me.
Thanks a lot.
Best wishes,
D. Chen