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Subject:    [festival-talk] short vs long vowels
From:       awb () cs ! cmu ! edu (Alan W Black)
Date:       2005-08-22 11:04:30
Message-ID: 17161.45374.77415.464984 () cairo ! lti ! cs ! cmu ! edu
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message from Alan W Black <awb at cs.cmu.edu> to festival-talk
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 Stefan Pal writes on 22 August 2005:
 > message from Stefan Pal <stpa01ad at student.cbs.dk> to festival-talk
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 > Hi,
 > 
 > I've almost finished recording and building a Danish voice, and I'm at the point \
where I can test the basic waveform synthesizer.  > 
 > I've noticed that there is no difference between short and long vowels when I \
synthesize strings of phones, even though the recorded prompts differ significantly. \
What could cause this?  > 
 > I've used colon to indicate long vowels, e.g. /i/(short) and /i:/(long).
 > Is this a problem?

If you are using SayPhones, by default all phones are synthesized as 100ms
so long and short vowels will be given the same length.  You'll need to have
a duration model that would give then distinct durations.

Alan


 > Thanks,
 > 
 > Stefan Pal
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 > Stud.Ling.Merc.
 > Dept. of Comp. Linguistics, CBS,
 > Copenhagen
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