[hts-users:04429] Re: HTS demo 'alice' labels

[Rasmus Dall <R.Dall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There may have been ever so slight changes since they were generated  
10 years ago.

I'd recommend regenerating them yourself using the same front-end  
setup (even if that is also festival) you use for your training data!

- Rasmus

Quoting "Heiga ZEN (Byung Ha CHUN)" <heigazen@xxxxxxxxxx> on Tue, 06  
Dec 2016 17:12:22 +0000:

> AFAIK there was not change at that time.
>
> Heiga
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 4:32 PM Erica Cooper <ecooper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Thanks, Heiga!  so the Festival HTS voice was just using the default US
> > English frontend from Festival, or do you know of any changes that were
> > made?
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Heiga ZEN (Byung Ha CHUN) <
> > heigazen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I think I generated these labels about 10 years ago...
> >
> > IIRC, they were directly generated from festival HTS voice.  At that time,
> > festival HTS voices dumped labels to a tmp file then ran hts engine to
> > synthesize speech.  I think I copied these tmp label files.
> >
> > I am not sure whether it still runs in this way.  It may be fully
> > integrated and no tmp file is created.
> >
> > Heiga
> >
> > 2016年12月5日(月) 19:12 Erica Cooper <ecooper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> > Hi HTS-users,
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone knew anything about how the 'alice' test labels
> > in the demo were created.  Searching through the list archives it appears
> > that Festival was used, however I have noticed on a few occasions that with
> > some different voices trained on different types of data, .wav files
> > synthesized from the 'alice' labels just tend to sound better than
> > synthesis from our own test labels we've created.  We are using Festival
> > 'text2utt' to get utts out of a txt.done.data-formatted file, and then
> > using the steps in the data/Makefile to convert from utt->lab.  Were the
> > 'alice' labels perhaps created in some different way, or using some
> > different settings in Festival?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Erica
> >
> > --
> > ---------------------------------------
> > Heiga ZEN (in Japanese)
> > Byung Ha CHUN (in Korean)
> > <heigazen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >
> > --
> ---------------------------------------
> Heiga ZEN (in Japanese)
> Byung Ha CHUN (in Korean)
> <heigazen@xxxxxxxxxx>



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