Multisyn Voice Definition File

[Catherine T]

I have trained all the parameters I need for a multisyn voice and now in order to load it into festival I need to create a voice definition document, as autoload gives me this error:

SIOD ERROR: autoload: “$PATH_TO_VOICE/VOICENAME.scm” does not define voice_VOICENAME

I haven’t however found any clear examples of what this file needs to look like for a multisyn voice. The explanation here http://festvox.org/festvox-1.0/festvox_10.html is not complete and in the multisyn documentation they suggest copying from a file that does not come with the multisyn_build download package. The documentation I found here http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/manual/festival_24.html#SEC109 is for Spanish and not really useful to the busy student with no time to spare on deep linguistic analyses.

The voices to be made for the Speech Synthesis assignment seemed to be defined automatically. Is there a file I am missing?

Thank you in advance!

[Simon]

The instructions are only intended to be used on the machines in the lab. Sounds like you might be doing this on your own machine?

The voice definition file is provided for you – just make sure you set up your workspace correctly, and source the setup file in each new shell – this sets paths and so on, so that Festival finds the voice definition file.

[Catherine T]

Yes, I am running this on a machine for my Msc project. So does that mean I could find such a file on the lab computers and copy it over?

[Simon]

Look in

/Volumes/Network/courses/ss/festival/lib.incomplete/voices-multisyn/english/localdir_multisyn-gam

on the lab machines. This is a special kind of voice definition that looks for all the voice files in the current working directory (i.e., wherever you start Festival from).

[Catherine T]

Thank you so much! Just what I was looking for. Do I have to rewrite it in any way other that rename the file after the voice I have already made? Festival is saying it cannot open the file.

[Simon]

You need to post error messages to get help with them.

The voice definition needs to be somewhere in Festival’s path – e.g., put it alongside any voices that were installed when you installed Festival originally.

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