Hi,

I am trying to extend the voice_kal_diphone phoneset by introducing a
single phone from Hindi and adding it to the phoneset. At this point, I am
more interested in understanding the process of creating a new voice and
(pending availability of data) am proceeding incrementally by adding a
single phone to a complete voice. I am also recording the new words in my
own voice and do not much care if the output suffers as a result of
different voices (for different phones) in the output. My understanding of
adding a new voice or phone can be separated into two parts:

1. Recording the wav files, labeling the input sentences and getting LPC
coefficients for the phones.
2. Creating new lts rules for the new phone.

I am trying to create new LTS rules for this phone using the instructions
given here: http://festvox.org/bsv/x1469.html

My question(s) are:

1. When I use merge_models on the aligned file, my LTS rules look like:
;; LTS rules
(set! cmu_lts_rules '(
))

This maybe because I am using only a very small training and test set (All
tests until the creation of LTS rules have been successful). Why would this
error arise and how can I get rid of it?

2. Is there a way that I can add to the LTS rules incrementally? Or do I
need to recompile the lts_rules for the entire lexicon each time I enter a
new phone?

I apologize in case my question is unclear. I have just started to explore
festival and some of my questions may come across as naive.

Regards,
Sriram
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