This lab session will give you a chance to get some extra help on your assignment. The following are suggestions on things you might like to prepare before the lab for feedback.

Get some writing advice

Bring a sample of your writing (150-200 words). Be ready to share it with Simon for feedback. It’s also good practice for you to get feedback on your writing from your peers, so feel free to do this in the lab or amongst yourselves at another time.

Generate some TTS error samples

Create some example synthetic speech, save the audio and spectrogram for your best example in each of the following categories, and come to the lab ready to explain to your tutor and classmates what the errors such as:

1. Waveform generation mistakes, in which the front end did not make any mistakes, yet the synthetic waveform contains an audible problem.
2. Synthetic speech in which there is a clearly visible join in the spectrogram, yet it is not audible.
3. Mistakes in the TTS front-end
4. Other things that sound weird!

You can use the speech zone forum on assignment 1 to ask for help.  You might find some of your questions are already answered in previous posts.