[mary-users] Distortion and buzzing

[Marc Schroeder]

Hi,

is this the case for all voices, or just certain ones? Have you tried:

a) unit selection voices (e.g., slt-arctic);
b) hmm-based voices (e.g., hmm-slt);
c) mbrola voices (e.g., mbrola-us1)?

Is the buzzy sound only when playing back in the GUI client when 
pressing the "Play" button, or also when you save as WAV? (i.e., is the 
problem in the server or the client)

Is the speech still intelligible, or not? Can you send an example?

It sounds to me like a byte-order problem, but without more detailed 
information, it is difficult to know.

Regards,
Marc

PS: MARY TTS/lib/native is present only when you install native 
components, e.g. the english-shprot component in the installer. This 
should be unrelated.

Charles Rich schrieb:
> Hi, I have just installed the latest version of Mary on my new MacBook  
> Pro (running Leopard 10.5.1 and Java 5.0).   When I run the browser  
> demo at http://mary.dfki.de/online-demos/speech_synthesis, it sounds  
> fine, but when I run my locally installed server and client, I get  
> terrible distortion and buzzing.   I thought at first something was  
> wrong with my speakers or sound card, but that is obviously not the  
> case, since the online demo is pure and clear.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks, -CR
> 
> P.S. I am evaluating Mary for use in student projects for a grad class  
> on intelligent user interfaces I am teaching this spring (paired with  
> Sphinx4 for reco).
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Dr. Charles Rich, Professor of Computer Science
> Interactive Media and Game Development
> Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Fuller Laboratories 143
> 100 Institute Road, Worcester, MA 01609-2280
> 
> Email: rich at wpi.edu   Phone: 508-831-5945   Fax: 508-831-5776
> Home: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~rich
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