This topic is for local tools. For publicly-available tools, see this topic in the general Speech Synthesis > Evaluation forum.

PPLS and Informatics have licenses for Qualtrics, a platform that allows staff and students to run online surveys.

PPLS students automatically have Qualtrics accounts.

Informatics students need to create an account here: http://computing.help.inf.ed.ac.uk/qualtrics-survey-platform

Documentation and tutorials to get users started

Do I need to make a distinction between different types of work (e.g., a scientific paper vs. a fictional novel) when citing them?

Hi,

I tried to start an interactive GPU session for synthesis using:

qlogin -q gpu -l gpu=1 -l h_rt=0:30:00 -P ppls_ssgpu

but I got the following message:

Your job … (“QLOGIN”) has been submitted
waiting for interactive job to be scheduled …
Your “qlogin” request could not be scheduled, try again later

I wanted to ask whether this simply means that no GPU resources were available at that time, or whether there might be something wrong with my request or project settings.

Hello, I am having issues with running demo.sh (the everyvoice demo) on my personal computer.
When checking with classmates, it seems the only difference we have is that they are running it on the ppls remote desktop while I am doing so through my own terminal. Am I being blocked by a firewall? and if so, how can I fix it? 
Thank you.

Do I need to include a consent statement/agreement at the beginning of my survey to collect data from participants? If so, approximately what information should I include?

Is it possible to control the playback speed of videos on this site?

Currently, this jumps either to the next video, or a reading, whichever is next in sequence.

The fix will involve updating my custom WordPress plugin, so will be done in-between academic years, not while a course is running.

Thank you for the useful feedback (from 22 responses), regarding the Speech Synthesis course. I have clustered your comments, and my responses are below.

I have briefly summarised the most frequently mentioned “Keep doing this” points without adding any response, then responded to each “Change this” point made by at least 2 people. All feedback was carefully considered and even points made by just one person are still taken into account.

Please do feel free to follow up and offer more feedback or clarification.

If the studio microphone or the talkback (engineer’s) microphone are not working, try doing the following to the relevant input channel:

• set “Analog level” to something other than “Mic”, then set it back to “Mic”
• Turn the phantom power off, then on again: this is the “48” button

I have installed sshfs on my MacOS using the instructions from the lab. However, when I run
sshfs eddie:/exports/chss/[my directory] ~/Desktop/Eddie , I get the error ‘sshfs: invalid argument ‘/Users/Desktop/Eddie’

Furthermore, when I run sshfs –version, I get the following response:

“SSHFS version 3.7.5
FUSE library version 3.17.4
using FUSE kernel interface version 7.40
macFUSE mount version 5.1.3

This program is not meant to be called directly. The macFUSE library calls it.”

What does it mean by “This program is not meant to be called directly.”? What can I do to troubleshoot this?