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 <
[email protected]> 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 <[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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>>
>
>
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> Heather Dewey-Hagborg
>
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>



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