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 <[email protected]>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 <
> [email protected]> 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
>>
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