How will this assigment be marked?
For this assignment, we are looking to assess your understanding of how (concatenative) TTS works. The report should not be a discursive essay, nor merely documentation of what you typed into Festival and what output you got. We want to see that you can what you’ve learned from working this specific voice setup in Festival and how you can relate that to the theory from lectures.
You will get marks for:
- Completing all parts of the practical, and demonstrating this in the report
- Providing interesting errors made by Festival, with correct analysis of the type of error and of which module made the error.
- Providing an analysis of the severity and implications of different types of errors and how they can effect the usefulness of a TTS voice more generally.
If you do that (i.e., complete all the requested sections of the report), you will likely to get a mark in the good to very good range (as defined by the University of Edinburgh Common Marking Scheme).
As mentioned above, you can get higher marks by adding some more depth to your analysis in each section (See report write-up guidance).
We use a positive marking approach in Speech Processing. That means that we look for things to give you marks for rather than taking away points from a maximum score. So, if you write something incorrect, it will be ignored in terms of assigning marks. However, markers may provide comments explaining why something you wrote isn’t quite right.
You will not get marked down for typos or grammatical errors, but do proofread your work. Clear, easy-to-follow writing will help your markers give you the credit you deserve!