Have you checked the labellings of your prompts? To do so, copy the contents of your wav folder and the contents of your lab folder into the same directory (or setup links to make it seem that way). Once you've done that, open up the wav files with waveurfer, and choose the "transcription" view for all of them. Now you can go through one by one and check if the labellings are right. Options are: re-record the ones with bad labellings (remember to run bin/make_lab again before checking the labels again, I made this mistake once, and kept re-recording and thinking that the autolabeller sucked. Also, to save time, you can run bin/make_labs prompt-wav/test001.wav to just relabel test001.wav, instead of doing it to all the recordings, which can be time-consuming.), or hand-correcting the labels. You can literally just drag the labels from within wavesurfer (remember to copy your changes back to the lab/ directory).
Once you've got all the labels as perfect as you care to have them, just repeat all the steps after "bin/make_labs prompt-wav/*.wav" and you should get the voice built with proper labeling. Jeremy On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Heather Dewey-Hagborg < heat...@deweyhagborg.com> wrote: > So I have successfully gone through all the steps here: > http://festvox.org/bsv/c3619.html > to build a new US voice and it actually speaks! > > The problem is it sounds almost indecipherable... I think many of the > phones are bad - either the recording is bad or the alignment is bad. Some > phones sound just like noise or hiss or snaps pops etc. some phones sound > good. > I have attached a wav file of the voice saying "once upon a time in a land > far far away hello world" > in case anyone has troubleshooting tips. Is there a way for example to have > festival say what phones it is using for text input? Or to test every phone > in the voice database? Or to trace text input to the original recorded file > in some other way? any advice appreciated... > > thanks, > Heather > > _______________________________________________ > Festlang-talk mailing list > Festlang-talk@lists.berlios.de > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/festlang-talk > >
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