[mary-users] Mary TTS unit selection tuning

[Ingmar Steiner]

Dear Srinidhi,

the workflow you outline should give you a reasonably smooth-sounding 
unit-selection voice. But it will sound just as flat and emotionless as 
the recordings. If that's what you expect, then fine.

Pronunciation errors are more than possible and don't necessarily have 
to do with the voice data. Without knowing any details, I would also 
have a look at the pronunciation predicted by the language component, 
just to rule out upstream errors.

Best wishes,

-Ingmar

On 12.03.14 08:53, Srinidhi K R wrote:
> Hi,
> We have worked on the following points for improving quality of output from marytts  unit selection voice:
> 1)Recording of corpus with following features:
>          a)Flat voice without emotions
>          b)Uniform rate of speech across entire corpus
>          c)Uniform and complete pronounciations
> 2)Manual Labelling corrections using wavesurfer.
> 3)Tweaking target cost and join cost weight parameters.
>
>
> Apart from the above , is there anything else which I need to look into for further improving the quality.
> Still with above steps I am seeing that some of the words are not pronounced properly due to improper joins.
>
> Thanks
> Srinidhi
>
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