Changes between Version 14 and Version 15 of HMMVoiceCreation

Timestamp:

08/31/10 18:23:13 (14 years ago)

Author:

marcela_charfuelan

Comment:

--

HMMVoiceCreation

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-= '''Voice Import Tools Tutorial : How to build a HMM-based voice for the MARY 4.1.0 platform''' =
+= '''Voice Import Tools Tutorial : How to build a HMM-based voice for MARY 4.1.0 TTS system''' =
 
 For creating HMM-based voices we use a version of the speaker dependent training scripts provided by [http://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp/ HTS] that was adapted to the MARY 4.1.0 platform. The steps for building a HMM voice for the MARY platform can be summarised in:[[BR]]
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 '''MARY requirements:'''[[BR]]
 - Operating System - Linux (tested on Ubuntu 9.04) [[BR]]
-- MARY TTS 4.1.0 including Voice import tools during installation - link: [http://mary.dfki.de/download/4.0/openmary-standalone-install-4.0.0.jar MARY TTS 4.1.0] [[BR]]
+- MARY TTS 4.1.0 including Voice import tools during installation - link: [http://mary.dfki.de/download/4.0/openmary-standalone-install-4.1.0.jar MARY TTS 4.1.0] [[BR]]
 
 
@@ -23 +23 @@
 '''
 
-Click on the latest MARY release [http://mary.dfki.de/download/4.0/openmary-standalone-install-4.0.0.jar MARY download] or download the file and run it with:
+Click on the latest MARY release [http://mary.dfki.de/download/4.0/openmary-standalone-install-4.1.0.jar MARY download] or download the file and run it with:
 {{{
 java -jar openmary-standalone-install-4.1.0.jar
@@ -103 +103 @@
 '''2-''' Run the AllophonesExtractor of the Automatic Labeling group to create the '''prompt_allophones''' directory required in the next step. This component requires the MARY server. [[BR]]
 
-'''3-''' Run the EHMMlabeler component of the Automatic Labeling group to label automatically the wav files using the corresponding transcriptions. This procedure might
-take several hours. For running EHMMLabeler, please use the settings editor of this component to set, according to your festvox installation, the variable:
+'''3-''' Run the EHMMlabeler component of the Automatic Labeling group to label automatically the wav files using the corresponding transcriptions. If the pauses at the beginning and end of your recordings are longer than 0.2 seconds, you might consider to reduce these pauses using the tool: Convert recorded audio (as explained in [wiki:NewLanguageSupport NewLanguageSupport] No. 9) to trim initial and final silences.[[BR]]
+
+
+The EHMMLabeler procedure might take several hours. For running EHMMLabeler, please use the settings editor of this component to set, according to your festvox installation, the variable:
 {{{
    EHMMLabeler.ehmm  = ../festvox/src/ehmm/bin/
@@ -149 +151 @@
 Using the settings editor of this component you can also change other variables like using LSP instead og MGC, sampling frequency, etc., the same as you would do when running "make configure + parameters" with the original HTS scripts.
 
-'''11-''' Run the HMMVoiceFeatureSelection component of the HMM Voice trainer group. This program reads the '''mary/features.txt''' file (created in step 11), and generates the file '''mary/hmmFeatures.txt'''. This file contains extra features, apart from phone and phonological features, that will be used to train HMMs. When running this program a small set of features will be presented on top, separated by an empty line:[[BR]]
-{{{
-   pos_in_syl
-   syl_break
-   prev_syl_break
-   position_type
-   
-   accented
-   accented_syls_from_phrase_end
-   accented_syls_from_phrase_start
-   breakindex
-   edge
-   ...
-}}}
-If you are not sure about using other features, use the first four, delete the others and save the file.
+'''11-''' Run the HMMVoiceFeatureSelection component of the HMM Voice trainer group. This program reads the '''mary/features.txt''' file (created in step 11), and generates the file '''mary/hmmFeatures.txt'''. The hmmFeatures.txt file contains extra features, apart from phone and phonological features, that will be used to train HMMs. Select on the window extra features for training or simply copy on the window the following:[[BR]]
+{{{
+accented
+next_tobi_endtone
+onsetcoda
+prev_accent
+next_is_pause
+tobi_accent
+syl_break
+pos_in_syl
+stressed
+prev_syl_break
+segs_from_word_start
+selection_prosody
+prev_is_pause
+next_tobi_accent
+syls_from_phrase_start
+words_from_phrase_start
+tobi_endtone
+}}}
+Delete other features and save.
 
 '''12-''' Run the HMMVoiceMakeData component of the HMM Voice trainer group to run the HTS procedure "make data". This procedure require the following files:
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 Marcela Charfuelan[[BR]]
-Tue Aug 31 16:27:09 CEST 2010
+Tue Aug 31 18:23:02 CEST 2010