[mary-dev] TDPSOLA concatenation (!) in Mary

[Ingmar Steiner]

Dear Jerome,

if you want to implement PSOLA as some kind of educational exercise, 
good luck.

Personally, I would strongly warn against trying it out with marytts (or 
in Java at all, for that matter). Use something that comes with strong 
support for signal processing and allows you to debug or inspect the 
data at any point, such as MATLAB, SciPy, or even Praat (probably 
well-suited to such a project, in fact).

However, it all depends on how good your programming skills are, and how 
much of a learning effort you are willing to make. I'm afraid I can't 
help you any further.

Best wishes,

-Ingmar

On 11/26/12 18:39, Jerome Perri wrote:
> I have read in several places that TD-PSOLA for concatenation is useful.
> I would so much like to try it in Mary, but what hinders me doing that is
> 1) I am not good at reading formulas. They really gave me headaches, not
> being a good mathematician.
> 2) Even if I think I understood the papers, and I do an implementation,
> I might have misread something
> 3) Even if I understood everything correctly and did a good
> implementation, and I am just 1 byte off, I think the method is crappy.
>
> I don't have the skills to attempt it, I think.
>
> Can somebody tell me what he would do in my situation?
>
> 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