Hi Volker, could I have a little bit of help setting this up? The scripts you attach seem to use the program "epochs", however, when I build the entire ESPS package and install it, I can't find any program with a similar name in either the source or installation directories.
There seems to be a directory general/src/epochs which would house the source. However, during the install, it simply compiles the object files and does nothing with them. Is there some special command I should give it to actually build all the executables the wrapper scripts need? Thanks, Jeremy On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Volker Strom <vst...@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jun 2011, Alan W Black wrote: > > message from Alan W Black <a...@cs.cmu.edu> to festival-talk >> = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = >> >> Heather Dewey-Hagborg wrote: >> >>> Could anyone point me toward a brief explanation of how pitchmarks are >>> used >>> in diphone synthesis? I am continuing to tweak my festvox generated voice >>> and am trying to figure out how important the pitchmarks are ie. if I >>> should >>> try to really tweak them to the point of editing by hand etc. >>> >>> >> The are pretty important. They are used to define join points and to >> define the pitch of the diphone (to know how much it has to be varied to >> the target). >> >> Extracting good pitch marks is hard. For some voices it works well and >> for others it does not. Four our system, the pitch marks must align with >> the largest peaks in the signal (in voiced regions). There a parameters >> that you can tune in bin/make_pm_wave, but I have to admit even I find them >> to be somewhat magic. The key ones are -min and -max though. >> >> There is some discussion here >> >> http://www.festvox.org/bsv/**x862.html<http://www.festvox.org/bsv/x862.html> >> > > You may want to try an alternative pitchmarker, program 'epochs' by David > Talkin, > which is part of ESPS, the Entropics Signal Processing System. In my > experience it > works much better than make_pm_wave / pitchmark without tweaking the > parameters. > Once I compared 4 different pitch trackers with their default parameters to > manually corrected reference pitch tracks. ESPS get_f0, also by David > Talkin, won by far. I > never got round to do the same experiment with pitch markers, but I'd bet > epochs would win. I know for sure it figures out the polarity of the signal > (it tries both hypothesis - if you know the polarity, you can tell it and it > runs twice as fast). > > I have attached two wrapper scripts for epochs. ESPS itself used to be > commercial software but is now available free here: > http://ldc.upenn.edu/myl/**esps60.6.linmac.src.tgz<http://ldc.upenn.edu/myl/esps60.6.linmac.src.tgz> > > Volker > > > -- > Volker Strom > www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/ssi/people/**vstrom.html<http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/ssi/people/vstrom.html> > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > > _______________________________________________ > Festlang-talk mailing list > Festlang-talk@lists.berlios.de > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/festlang-talk > >
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