What sort of distortion is occuring? is it clipping? I'm sorry, I can't help you with your other question.
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 1:27 AM, Heather Dewey-Hagborg < heat...@deweyhagborg.com> wrote: > Another thing that is confusing is that when I say for example > > festival> (SayPhones '(l d)) > > I get a badly distorted d sound. But when I play the file us_1100 which the > diphone index has mapped to l-d it sounds fine and the label looks fine as > well. If I replace the mapping in the index for l-d with l-dh it sounds > fine, no distortion. So if the original recording is not distorted where is > the distortion coming from? > > > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Heather Dewey-Hagborg < > heat...@deweyhagborg.com> wrote: > >> Thanks for the advice, I will check the labeling more thoroughly. spot >> checks looked pretty good but I didn't review every recording. >> One issue I have noticed is that the script which makes the index doesn't >> properly add the diphones like p_-_l timings. They just appear as 0 0 0 even >> though the lab file is correct. Anyone know a fix for this short of adding >> all the hyphenated diphone timings by hand? >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 2:32 AM, Jeremy Salwen <jeremysal...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> 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 >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Heather Dewey-Hagborg >> >> www.deweyhagborg.com >> 518-598-3775 >> > > > > -- > Heather Dewey-Hagborg > > www.deweyhagborg.com > 518-598-3775 >
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