Re: [gnuspeech-contact] TRM as backend for festival

[Nickolay V. Shmyrev]

В Сбт, 10/02/2007 в 15:53 -0800, David Hill пишет:
> I have tried accessing the samples you provided.  Only one of them
> loaded and played.  It did not sound anything like speech.  The TRM is
> simply the waveguide model of an acoustic tube, with control regions
> applied according to the Distinctive Region Model developed by Carré,
> based on earlier work by Fant.  The underlying theory is outlined in
> the paper "Real-time articulatory speech-synthesis-by-rules" on my
> university web site and referenced from the gnuspeech project site
> (see below for the university web site URL).  Manuals for
> "Synthesiser" and "Monet" also appear on that web site, towards the
> end of section E of the published papers page.  In the Monet manual
> there is a table showing the equivalences between IPS symbols and the
> Monet symbols.  This should allow you to translate into the Festival
> set.

Ok, thanks, I'll do

> Monet is an interactive tool for developing data sets for arbitrary
> languages.  Real-time Monet (which has not yet been ported) is the
> heart of a daemon that uses these data sets to convert text to speech.
> It is a stripped down version of Monet and it would be really nice if
> someone would take on that task (please ;-).  Without the data sets,
> and the algorithms for manipulating the parameters tracks, you don't
> have a speech synthesiser, you have a rather specialised trumpet!

Well, I can do that. I just need more explanation. Is it something Steve
splitted in Framework dir? Currently Monet compiles file, only gorm
files are missing. I don't think sound is required btw, it's enough to
be able to save audio file.

> The data sets developed for synthesis in "diphones.monet" were
> developed based on several years of research in which British English
> speech was analysed for sound data, rhythmic (duration) data, and
> intonation data.  This research is reported in other papers on the
> site.
> 
Btw, have you heart about MOSHA database?
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/research/projects/artic/mocha.html
It seems that Alan already used it in unit-selection synthesis. Although
it's not free I suppose, that's why this work isn't available still. If
it will be possible to generate set of prompts (around 1000 will be
enough I suppose) with Monet and later process coefficients with
unit-selection that would be interesting thing I suppose.
> 
> If you would like to hear some samples of gnuspeech, go to my
> university web site:
> 
Yeah, I've downloaded them, but the problem is that I can reproduce
vowels, like in example "oi" you've sent. But I have no idea how Monet
reproduces consonants. There are examples, but no trm files for them.
And the examples I have (for instance the one Steve kindly sent to me),
they sound like trumpet as you've noticed :) That's why I suspect there
is a bug in trm that makes consonants generation impossible.



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