[mary-users] Problem with voice importer

[H. Sasse]

I've done nothing with importing voices, and I'm not familiar with the 
code, but
I think I may be able to help you get a step further forwards.

On 24/07/2011 13:24, soundmodul at gmx.at wrote:
> Hi to all!
>
> I tried to created my own voice, and so i wrode textfiles (did not 
> find german textfiles for reuse) 
You can find plenty of free texts at Project Gutenburg.  I think there 
have been changes
in how one writes German, so some of them may not be suitable.
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/de
> and recordet the wav files.
> Than i tried to use the voice import tools.
> The first tool, that sucks is the PhoneUnitLabelComputer, this tool (I 
> looked into source) searches for strange chars like "^\\s*(......"

This looks like a regular expression, and it looks like the \ has been 
quoted in accordance
with
http://download.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html
or similar.  It means, "look for any whitespace (including none) and 
then collect whatever is
in the brackets into a variable", so it will skip leading spaces or tabs 
if there are any.
However, you have not explained why you believe this is the cause of 
your failure.
> (XwavesLabelfileDataSource.java)
> But my *.lab files looks like this:
> ###################
> #
> 0,490000 125 _
> 0,510000 125 d
> 0,655000 125 aI
> .
> .
> .
> ###################
> I wonder, because the *.lab files looks similar than the downloadet 
> example cmu_us.
> Does anyone know, what I am doing wrong?

You might get more help if you explain how you tried to use the voice 
import tools.
What commands, with what arguments, did you use?  What results did you 
expect?
Then what actually happened?  The important thing about debugging
problems like this is being able to reproduce the problem exactly, so it 
can be analysed.
Saying that something "sucks" doesn't get people much closer to that 
position.
>
> Thanks in advance!
     Hugh