[mary-users] Building HMM voices in 22050 Hz

Sat Apr 21 18:19:04 CEST 2012

Hello Marcela,

Thanks for the settings. Now I have another problem to solve.

The voice that MARY synthesizes sounds rougher than the one synthesized by
the hts-engine during the HTS script training.

In addition to that, an exception occurrs when I try to save the audio of
this voice in .wav and .aiff files, it's only possible to save it in au.
files.

In the attachments you will find:

- Examples of the voice synthesized by hts-engine (gen_voz0001.wav) and by
MARY TTS (MARY_voz0001.au);
- The dialog box of the exception;
- A text file containing the error message of the exception.

Is there any configuration setting that I'm still missing?

Regards,

Anderson

2012/4/16 Marcela Charfuelan <Marcela.Charfuelan at dfki.de>

> **
> Dear Anderson de Oliveira Monte,
>
> The default settings are for 16Kz,
> HMMVoiceConfigure.fftLen 512
> HMMVoiceConfigure.frameLen 400  (0.025 sec)
> HMMVoiceConfigure.frameShift 80   (0.005 sec)
> HMMVoiceConfigure.freqWarp 0.42
>
> so if you want to train with 22050, please take into account the following
> settings:
>
> HMMVoiceConfigure.fftLen 512
> HMMVoiceConfigure.frameLen ~ 550  (0.025*22050)
> HMMVoiceConfigure.frameShift ~ 110  (0.005*22050)
> HMMVoiceConfigure.freqWarp  0.45
>
> Frequency warping factor:
> 8000 FREQWARP=0.31
> 10000 FREQWARP=0.35
> 12000 FREQWARP=0.37
> 16000 FREQWARP=0.42
> 22050 FREQWARP=0.45
> 32000 FREQWARP=0.45
> 44100 FREQWARP=0.53
> 48000 FREQWARP=0.55
>
> Regards,
> Marcela.
>
>
> On 04/13/2012 05:52 AM, Anderson de Oliveira Monte wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>  I was able to build and install in MARY TTS a Brazilian Portuguese HMM
> Voice using wav files that were downsampled to 16000Hz.
>
>  Now I'm trying to build another voice with the same wav files in their
> original sampling rate (22050Hz). I've made two attempts, each one with the
> following sets of external programs:
>
>  *RECOMMENDED SET (by MARY's HMM-based voice building tutorial):*
> *HTS-2.1*
> *HTK-3.4*
> *HDecode-3.4*
> *SPTK-3.2 *
> *hts_engine_API-1.01 *
> *========================================================================*
> *ALTERNATIVE SET:*
> *HTS-2.1.1*
> *HTK-3.4.1*
> *HDecode-3.4.1*
>  *SPTK-3.3 *
> *hts_engine_API-1.03*
>
>  With the RECOMMENDED set, I was able to build and install the voice in
> MARY without erros. However, it's impossible to understand what it says (I
> believe it has something to do with the alignment step, although no error
> was reported during the whole voice building process). With the ALTERNATIVE
> set, I was able to build a nice voice, better than the one in 16000Hz (I
> checked it at the directories under "hts/gen/qst001/ver1/1mix/"), but
> errors ocurred when the training process tried to synthesize waveforms
> using the hts-engine (not only in version 1.03, but also in versions 1.01
> and 1.06). In addition to that, I tried to install and use this voice in
> MARY TTS, but errors also occurred when the MARY SERVER tried to load it.
>
>  I would like to know if anybody has already built a HMM voice in 22050Hz
> in MARY. If yes, how did you solve such issues and what versions of the
> mentioned programs did you use? Is there any version of MARY TTS with
> improvements or bugfixes to solve these issues?
>
>  All the best,
>
>  Anderson
>
>
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>
> --
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