Re: [festival-talk] Native alsa support

Converting FestVox Voices

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Re: Converting FestVox Voices

luixsansan@... wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to build a spanish voice for flite, I am using the diphone voice that comes with Festival
festvox_ellpc11k and I am trying to follow chapter 8 from flite's manual.
> 
> I have succesfully compiled Flite and FestVox,
> 
> The first thing that intrigues me is the paragraph
> 
> "This will read `etc/voice.defs', which should have been created by the FestVox build process (except in
very old versions of FestVox)."
> 
> I am using FestVox2.1 which is the version I can download form the page and neither the directory nor the
file are created.
> 
> I have created manually the folder and for voice.defs I wrote
> 
> FV_INST=cmu
> FV_LANG=es
> FV_NAME=el
> FV_TYPE=diphone
> FV_VOICENAME=$FV_INST"_"$FV_LANG"_"$FV_NAME
> FV_FULLVOICENAME=$FV_VOICENAME"_"$FV_TYPE
> 
> After runnig setup_flite I have a folder flite with some files in it, but when I run build_flite I get some
errors, which is the correct procedure?, how do I set a reference to
festival/lib/voices/spanish/el_diphone which is the voice I want to convert?
> 
> 
> In folder "vox_files" there is a subfolder "es", which I suppose it corresponds to spanish, How can I use
these files for my purpose?
> 

Actually this isn't directly possible with the "grouped" version of the 
diphones, the flite conversion code requires the source version of the 
diphone files which we've not distributed (and I'm not sure where they 
are).  There have been others though who I believe have a spanish 
diphone voice in flite.

Alan

> Thank you very much for your help.
> 
> Luis.
> 

various scripts: awk '{print $2}' $PROMPTFILE

Hi,

Various scripts, such as make_pm_wave and make_mcep contain the following
line

  awk '{print $2}' $PROMPTFILE |

The purpose of this line is to pick the file names from a data file.
Nice idea, but the solution is quick&dirty and it has some problems.
I had to read the scripts and add a space after the starting (-brackets to
get my old files work. (Maybe this hack is a documented feature, Then I
have just missed it.) The current solution is less than elegant and it
breaks away from the lisp-like notation.
Also, I for one, like to add lisp-style comments and other metadata to my
data files. Therefore I'd like to suggest a replacement:

  festival -b '(let ((flist (load "'$PROMPTFILE'" t)) a) (while flist
(begin (set! a (caar flist)) (format t "%s\n" a) (set! flist (cdr
flist)))))' |

It's more complex, but this version is conserned only about the proper use
of brackets...

br,
  Nicholas

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Re: various scripts: awk '{print $2}' $PROMPTFILE

В Птн, 13/08/2010 в 14:26 +0300, Nicholas Volk пишет:
> Hi,
> 
> Various scripts, such as make_pm_wave and make_mcep contain the following
> line
> 
>   awk '{print $2}' $PROMPTFILE |
> 
> The purpose of this line is to pick the file names from a data file.
> Nice idea, but the solution is quick&dirty and it has some problems.
> I had to read the scripts and add a space after the starting (-brackets to
> get my old files work. (Maybe this hack is a documented feature, Then I
> have just missed it.) The current solution is less than elegant and it
> breaks away from the lisp-like notation.
> Also, I for one, like to add lisp-style comments and other metadata to my
> data files. Therefore I'd like to suggest a replacement:
> 
>   festival -b '(let ((flist (load "'$PROMPTFILE'" t)) a) (while flist
> (begin (set! a (caar flist)) (format t "%s\n" a) (set! flist (cdr
> flist)))))' |
> 
> It's more complex, but this version is conserned only about the proper use
> of brackets...

Hello Nicholas

I've committed this thing to festvox in our tree. We'll merge there
build fixes and cleanups soon I think. So you are welcome to try and
submit more proposals.

https://svn.berlios.de/viewvc/festlang/trunk/festvox/

Overall, I think this is just a half-step to turning build process into
something managable running under real programming language not just a
collection of shell scripts.

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