[mary-users] Mary me

[Klemens Bobenhausen]

Dear Ingmar,

thanks a lot for your quick response. No - we did not fail, in general
thinks work fine, but we have some smaller Problems:

a) Secondary stress^^ ok, I will follow your hints and links first and
will come back to this point if I won't understand them. The lexicon
part of the problem is not that big, because we should be able to detect
and differ both kinds of stress automatically.

b) Are there possibilities to define something like "PAUSE" in maryXML?

c) In a word like "abfallen" mary does not correctly pronounce the
stress on the first syllable, for me it seems, that mary is trying to
detect the root syllable and put stress on that syllable. If I mark the
first syllable with stress (' ? ap), mary still tries to hold the stress
on the root syllable. Is this also part of the secondary-stress-problem
or are there possibilities to stop this?

Thank you for your great work and help

Klemens



Am 02.04.2012 09:47, schrieb Ingmar Steiner:
> Dear Klemens,
>
> Assuming your PHONEMES input is valid (i.e., doesn't contain any
> unknown allophones), there should be no problem in running the
> synthesis. (If you do this on a local, multi-processor machine, you
> should be able to synthesize in parallel, saving some time.)
>
> From your message, I'm not sure what your question is; have you tried
> and failed? If so, which step seems to be the problem?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> -Ingmar
>
> P.S. Note that things will be somewhat more complicated if you plan to
> support secondary stress; see for instance this thread:
>
> http://www.dfki.de/pipermail/mary-users/2012-February/001106.html
>
> On 01.04.2012 07:45, Klemens Bobenhausen wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> we want to use Mary to sythesize poems that we algoritmically produced
>> before. These poems have a metrical pattern. What we try to do is to
>> import our own PHONEMES into maryXML format and switch the stress on
>> those positions of the poem were the "prosody of normal dicourse" does
>> not fit with the metrical pattern. The PHONEMES themself are finished.
>> Our Lexikon has about 300.000 words, is syllable segmentated, knows the
>> right stress positions and is tranformed into marySAMPA. We now the
>> metrical stress pattern of the poem and the positions of the text where
>> the poem generates metrical complexity (between the stress pattern of
>> the poem and the stress of normal discourse).
>>
>> With these datas we want to convert PHONEMES to AUDIO.
>>
>> Is there anyone out there who could help us a little with that step?
>>
>> Best and thanks in advance
>>
>> Klemens
>>
>> -
>