[mary-users] HTK not patched with HTS

fxavier at ircam.fr fxavier at ircam.fr
Fri Jul 15 10:13:25 CEST 2011 

Hi satish,

Indeed, there are no "ssil" at all in the emmh.align file. The only
punctuation in the text files are "." at the end of sentences.

So if I add some punctuations, it's ok? What do you mean by sufficient
"ssil"? How many "ssil" do I have to consider to be enough? There are 510
sentences (so 510 text files), do I have to add punctuations in all the
text files?
Thank you very much for your answers,


Florent



> Hi Florant,
>
> No, it is not normal. Apparently, the labeling process was aborted at 15th
> iteration while separating 'short silence' model from 'pause' model. EHMM
> distinguishes two kinds of silence/pauses: 'ssil' (phrase boundaries or
> word
> level boundaries) and 'pau' (utterance beginning and ending). At 15th
> iteration, EHMM is trying to initialize 'ssil' model from the middle state
> of 'pause' model (which is trained from 1st iteration).
>
> The reason for the failure could be anyone of the following:
> 1. 'pau' model does not exist at 15th iteration due to lack of "pau"
> labels
> in  EHMM's transcription (i.e. $VoicebuildingDIR/ehmm/etc/ehmm.align).
> 2. 'ssil' (short silence) labels were not identified in EHMM's
> transcription
> (i.e. $VoicebuildingDIR/ehmm/etc/ehmm.align).
>
> In most of cases, the reason would be the second one. so lets check EHMM's
> phone level transcription "$VoicebuildingDIR/ehmm/etc/ehmm.align" for
> 'pau'
> and 'ssil'. How many of them present in that file?
>
> If you did not find sufficient 'ssil's in that file, I think the sentence
> transcription files ($VoicebuildingDIR/text/*.txt) may not have sufficient
> punctuations ( , ? ! . ) as Marcela mentioned earlier.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Best regards,
> Sathish
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:01 PM, <fxavier at ircam.fr> wrote:
>
>> Hi Satish,
>>
>> I saw some wave files were empty, that's why the process stopped early.
>> However, now removing those files and their transcription, I run the
>> ehmmlabeler, and it took around 2 houres which is a good sign. But still
>> the ehmm/lab dir and no .lab outputed.
>> The last lines of the log.txt are:
>>
>>
>> Den == 0 - SID: 1 wrd: 0 GauDen:0
>> Forcing means to be 0.01 and variance to be 1
>> Den == 0 - SID: 1 wrd: 0 GauDen:0
>> Forcing means to be 0.01 and variance to be 1
>> Den == 0 - SID: 2 wrd: 0 GauDen:0
>> Forcing means to be 0.01 and variance to be 1
>> Den == 0 - SID: 2 wrd: 0 GauDen:0
>> Forcing means to be 0.01 and variance to be 1
>> Den == 0 - SID: 3 wrd: 0 GauDen:0
>> Forcing means to be 0.01 and variance to be 1
>> Den == 0 - SID: 3 wrd: 0 GauDen:0
>> Forcing means to be 0.01 and variance to be 1
>> Note: Floored: word:state:gau:dim 29:147:1:0
>> FLOORED : -2.28828e-11 TO 0.001
>> Note: Floored: word:state:gau:dim 29:147:1:1
>> FLOORED : 1.92343e-13 TO 0.001
>> Note: Floored: word:state:gau:dim 29:147:1:2
>> FLOORED : 7.87252e-14 TO 0.001
>> Note: Floored: word:state:gau:dim 29:147:1:3
>> FLOORED : 1.00861e-14 TO 0.001
>> Note: Floored: word:state:gau:dim 29:147:1:4
>> FLOORED : -6.1927e-14 TO 0.001
>> Note: Floored: word:state:gau:dim 29:147:1:5
>> FLOORED : -1.59955e-13 TO 0.001
>> Note: Floored: word:state:gau:dim 29:147:1:6
>> FLOORED : -6.30745e-15 TO 0.001
>> Note: Floored: word:state:gau:dim 29:147:1:7
>> FLOORED : -3.67623e-13 TO 0.001
>> Note: Floored: word:state:gau:dim 29:147:1:8
>> FLOORED : -5.42379e-14 TO 0.001
>> Note: Floored: word:state:gau:dim 29:147:1:9
>> FLOORED : -6.57738e-14 TO 0.001
>> Note: Floored: word:state:gau:dim 29:147:1:10
>> FLOORED : 4.11719e-13 TO 0.001
>> Note: Floored: word:state:gau:dim 29:147:1:11
>> FLOORED : 5.87447e-14 TO 0.001
>> Note: Floored: word:state:gau:dim 29:147:1:12
>> FLOORED : 4.52353e-13 TO 0.001
>> Average Likelihood: (15) -30.2782 0.00828603
>> Accepted sentences are: 510 / 510
>> GENERATING SHORT PAUSE: AT 15 iteration
>> Number of pause states are: 5
>> Pau begin state: 145 end state: 149
>> Short silence state: 1
>> Source state number from Pause Model: 147
>> I am trying to middle state of pause model short silence model...
>> I assumed short pause to be of 3 states rather it is 5
>> Aborting...
>> Sequential Processing Flag: 1
>> Feature Path: /home/florent/PierreVoice/ehmm/feat
>> Feature exten: ft
>> NO of words: do not match: TW: 0 35
>>
>>
>>
>> Is it normal?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> Florent
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > Hi Florent,
>> >
>> > Have you verified the last few lines of log.txt? Could you provide
>> them?
>> > That may help us to understand what could be the problem.
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> > Sathish
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 6:46 PM, <fxavier at ircam.fr> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hello Marcela,
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for your answer. Commentes are below:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> >> HTK HHEd exists
>> >> >> HTK version: 3.4.1
>> >> >> HTK is installed but it seems not patched with HTS, because HHEd
>> does
>> >> >> not
>> >> >> have command CM.
>> >> >> HTK and HDecode have to be dowloaded, patched with HTS and
>> compiled
>> >> >> again
>> >> >> HTK patched with HTS is not installed
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> However HTS is properly patched with HTK (moved the patch to htk
>> >> >> directory, then ran:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> patch -p1 -d .<  HTS-2.1.1_for_HTK-3.4.1.patch
>> >> >> ./configure
>> >> >> make
>> >> >> make install
>> >> > I think this is what you should do: patch HTK with the HTS code.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Yes this is what I did of course, many times. HTS is properly patched
>> >> with
>> >> HTK for sure, however the check_install_external_programs -check
>> still
>> >> says it is not the case...
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> >> This could be the reason why when running the newvoiceimport
>> tools,
>> >> >> ehmmlabeler, the process only takes about 15 mn, everything seems
>> to
>> >> be
>> >> >> ok
>> >> >> according to the log.txt (features files are created), except the
>> >> .lab
>> >> >> that dont exist. Indeed, /lab directory is completely empty...
>> >> > These are two different programs, ehmm does not have much to do
>> with
>> >> > HTK-HTS
>> >> > we use ehmm for phonetic segmentation using force alignment.
>> >> > I have experienced some problems with ehmm when the text files
>> >> > (transcriptions) do not have any punctuation,
>> >> > if that is the case maybe you can add some commas, or ?, !
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> My text files already have ponctuations. Each sentence ends with a
>> >> point.
>> >> ehhm is properly installed:
>> >>
>> >> festvox ehmm exists
>> >> festvox ehmm: /home/florent/MARYTTS/lib/external/bin/ehmm
>> >> ehmm exist
>> >> ok
>> >>
>> >> and I removed the /bin from the ehmmdir. Any ideas?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks in advance,
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Florent
>> >>
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