[mary-users] Mary-users Digest, Vol 115, Issue 1

[Bibek Kumar Bazaz]

Hello again,


My friend is working on marytts too trying to develop a Assamese TTS. He
has been stuck in step 6: "database selection" .
the error shows Java.NullPointerException   . can you please look up the
matter?

Thanks again for the help you provide.

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 4:30 PM, <mary-users-request at dfki.de> wrote:

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> Hello Sir,
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> I am a Computer Science Student currently in my 8th semester from Gauhati
> University Institute of Science and Technology. I am developing a "Hindi
> Text to Speech converter using marytts" as my final semester project.
>
> While developing the project I have got stuck in the transcription of Hindi
> allophones and phonemes. i have tried to collect data on hindi allophones
> by browsing through net and studying some texts. However, I am still not
> able to get some useful data on how to calculate the various features of
> the hindi allophones.
> So, i write you this requesting your to please direct me towards some texts
> that can help me in my project.
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> Thank you,
> Bibek Kumar Bazaz
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> From: Tony Robinson <tonyr at speechmatics.com>
> Subject: Re: [mary-users] Requesting guidance for developing a Hindi
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> Sorry, but I don't know anything about Hindi.   I take it you are stuck
> at the text to phoneme part? That is you want to convert words like '
> ?????? ' to phonemes like 'H 'I n d i'?   If so, perhaps you should look
> at borrowing the text to phoneme part from espeak
> (https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng)?   To get the example above I
> ran: 'echo ??????  | espeak -v hi  -x'.    I'd be happy to run a complete
> lexicon through it for you if that would assist your work, but it's not
> too hard to install yourself.
>
> espeak is great for the number of languages it covers and the fact that
> it runs on very low resources, but the synthesis quality is poor.
> MaryTTS has much better synthesis quality and much lower coverage of
> languages.   It would be great to see some union of the two with high
> quality output and good language coverage.
>
>
> Tony
>
> On 10/03/16 07:27, Bibek Kumar Bazaz wrote:
> > Hello Sir,
> >
> > I am a Computer Science Student currently in my 8th semester from
> > Gauhati University Institute of Science and Technology. I am
> > developing a "Hindi Text to Speech converter using marytts" as my
> > final semester project.
> >
> > While developing the project I have got stuck in the transcription of
> > Hindi allophones and phonemes. i have tried to collect data on hindi
> > allophones by browsing through net and studying some texts. However, I
> > am still not able to get some useful data on how to calculate the
> > various features of the hindi allophones.
> > So, i write you this requesting your to please direct me towards some
> > texts that can help me in my project.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Bibek Kumar Bazaz
> >
> >
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