[mary-dev] Pitchmark correction in Mary 4.2

[Jerome Perri]

Dear Ingmar,

thank you for the hint on TDPSOLAD and for the info on the pitchmark correction.
Do you know why PM correction had been disabled in Mary?

Jerome

> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:40:23 +0000
> From: ingmar.steiner at ucd.ie
> To: jerome.perri at hotmail.com
> CC: mary-dev at dfki.de
> Subject: Re: Pitchmark correction in Mary 4.2
> 
> Dear Jerome,
> 
> from what I can tell, the corrPmDir property was disabled in the 
> SnackPitchmarker five years ago, and in PraatPitchmarker, three years 
> ago. See 
> https://github.com/marytts/marytts/commit/dd3a345d2de6b788dc7e7484ef44a63720f5f2ca 
> and 
> https://github.com/marytts/marytts/commit/4611bf782aa940521f286e7660d20c32038da7bd
> Note that the adjustPitchmarks and shiftTo* methods in 
> PraatPitchmarker.java are dead code.
> 
> I've removed the reference to the legacy property in the Wiki at 
> https://github.com/marytts/marytts/wiki/UnitSelectionVoiceCreation 
> Thanks for pointing it out.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> -Ingmar
> 
> On 24/11/2012 22:10, Jerome Perri wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > A question about Mary 4.2 (but I think it is the same in 4.3):
> >
> > I do not see in the code where the pitchmarks are corrected to zero
> > crossing.
> >
> > In this document...
> > http://mary.opendfki.de/wiki/VoiceImportComponents
> > .... there is a mentioning of
> > "corrPmDir - Output Dir Path for corrected pitch marks (Pitch marks
> > tuned towards Zero Crossing)"
> >
> > But I can not select this property in the voice import tools.
> >
> > In the source code I also see some places where pitch correction would
> > be done, for example
> >
> > private float[] adjustPitchmarks( String basename, float[] pitchmarks )
> > throws IOException
> >
> > But this part of the code is never called, as far as I could tell.
> >
> > And my pitchmarks look indeed weird. I plotted a PM file in a wave
> > editor, and they were not well placed.
> > At least they don't seem to be at zero crossings.
> > If somebody wants to have a look at the screenshot, please just tell me.
> >
> > Jerome
> 
> -- 
> Ingmar Steiner
> Postdoctoral Research Fellow
> Centre for Next Generation Localisation
> 
> Multilingual Ubiquitous Speech Technology (MUSTER)
> Computer Science and Informatics
> University College Dublin
> 
> Speech Communication Laboratory
> Centre for Language and Communication Studies
> Trinity College Dublin
 		 	   		  
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