[mary-users] distorted sound with MBROLA voices

[Marc Schroeder]

Hi,

that actually sounds like the typical byte swap problem. Apparently we 
need to tell MBROLA, or our MARY Mbrola code, that the byte order in the 
files is (the other way round from what it currently thinks it is).

Thanks for reporting the problem, I will make it a ticket for MARY 4.0.

Cheers,
Marc

Luzius Thöny schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a problem with MBROLA voices: The WAV sound files produced by 
> MARY are heavily distorted. It's just the MBROLA voices that give 
> trouble, the other voices work fine.
> 
> It makes no difference whether I play the sound files inside the Mary 
> Client or save them to disk and play them with a standard audio player - 
> I get the same distortion.
> 
> I have tried with both Mary 3.5.0 and 3.6.0, and I have tried with both 
> Java 1.5 and Java 1.6, but I always get the same problem.
> 
> The server is an AMD64 running Ubuntu Linux.
> 
> There's no indication in the logfiles that anything is going wrong (see 
> below). No errors were reported when installing the MBROLA voices, either.
> 
> -------------- server.log------
> ...
> 2008-08-21 15:26:29,215 [RH 1] INFO  MbrolaCaller Starting Synthesis 
> with command: /opt/MARY_TTS/bin/mbrola -e 
> /opt/MARY_TTS/lib/voices/de1/de1 - -.raw
> ...
> ...
> ...
> 2008-08-21 15:26:29,332 [RH 1] INFO  RH 1       Request handled 
> successfully.
> 
> -----------------------------------
> 
> In case anyone is interested, here's what the distortion sounds like: 
> http://www.doink.ch/marytest-de1.wav
> 
> any help is appreciated!
> 
> Luzius
> 
> ==========
> 
> Luzius Thöny
> Institut für Computerlinguistik
> Universität Zürich
> Binzmühlestr. 14
> CH-8050 Zürich
> lthoeni at ifi.uzh.ch <mailto:lthoeni at ifi.uzh.ch>
> lucius.antonius at gmail.com
> 
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