Re: Thoughts on testing -- for comment

Mark Huckvale (mark@phonetics.ucl.ac.uk)
Mon, 11 Jan 1999 17:09:01 +0000

At 16:39 11/01/99 +0000, you wrote:
>A more specific question:
>* Has anyone got FESTIVAL running on their machine? If so, how easy is it
>to input text and write out to file the MBROLA timings FESTIVAL generates?

I have FESTIVAL running, but I don't have the first idea about how
to do this. I could look into it if you like.

>another issue is f0: we want to have the same f0 in all versions of the
>same sentences, but we're not sure how easily we can manipulate the f0
>that we'd get out of FESTIVAL, given that we want to try our durational
>differences. Anyone know?

I guess you should set up the MBROLA .PHO file with natural Fx (say
using uttmbrol) then modify the durations by hand to FESTIVAL values.

Mark