Hi,

Sorry for the delay in response. flitevox voices can be built. I am assuming that you mean from a festival voice directory when you say source.

The following are set of commands to build a flite voice from existing festival voice directory:

$FLITEDIR/tools/setup_flite
./bin/build_flite
cd flite
make

If you also want to dump the voice,
make voicedump
make add_feats

An example script which has these is build_cg_rfs_voice (It should be in the bin directory)

Hope this helps!

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@saikrishnarallabandi thanks so much for the reply. sorry I didn't answer before now. I must have missed github's email notification.

I've tried to follow your directions but I'm a little new at this and there's a couple of points I'm confused about.

$FLITEDIR/tools/setup_flite

By FLITEDIR, do you mean the flite2.1 source code master dir that I clone from github? I'm asking because I compiled and installed flite2.1 but there was no tools folder in the final install prefix. On the other hand, there is a tools folder in the source code directory with a setup_flite script and there is a bin folder with a build_flite binary that appears after the make step in compilation. Are you referring to that in your ./bin/build_flite step? I just want to make sure that my assumptions are correct here and that you're not referring to something else.

am assuming that you mean from a festival voice directory when you say source.

I found a couple of sources: for this build I'm trying to build cmu_us_fem (the us english with german accent). I found a source for it in the festival arctic section found in: http://festvox.org/cmu_arctic/packed/cmu_us_fem_arctic.tar.bz2 (the one with /etc/txt.done.data and /wav/arctic_a000x.wav files). I also found http://festvox.org/packed/festival/2.5/voices/festvox_cmu_us_fem_cg.tar.gz.

I tried your procedure with both of these sources, setting "export FLITEDIR=git0cloned-flite2.1-sourcefolder-with-compiled-binaries" and "export ESTDIR=cloned-speech_tools-sourcefolder-with-compiled-binaries"

When I used $FLITEDIR/tools/setup_flite on extracted festvox_cmu_us_fem_cg.tar.gz folder, script said that it was missing the /wav dir. When I tried it on cmu_us_fem_arctic.tar.bz2's extracted folder, I got this error message:

Can't find etc/voice.defs file
don't know what voice to convert
Setup for conversion of to flite FAILED

Do I have the wrong source files? Or is there a step I'm missing or did wrong?

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Hi,

Saw this just now. sorry. Lets start with this directory you downloaded: http://festvox.org/cmu_arctic/packed/cmu_us_fem_arctic.tar.bz2

Once you extract, you can create the voice specific variables by running the following:

#Setup Voice directory
$FESTVOXDIR/src/clustergen/setup_cg cmu us fem

Ignore the warning and let it populate the folders. Now, you should be able to see the binaries in bin/

Running those shoud suffice. Let me know if there is some issue .

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Hello,

I feel like I'm really close but it's still giving me some errors close to the last step.
so this is what I have been able to put together from your instructions so far:

Short version:
build flite, build speech tools, build festival (this wasn't in your instructions but it solved an error I was getting during the ./bin/build_flite step), build festvox, extract cmu_us_fem_arctic.tar.bz2 and go to extracted folder, $FESTVOXDIR/src/clustergen/setup_cg cmu us fem, $FLITEDIR/tools/setup_flite, ./bin/build_flite, cd flite, make

Long version:

#Get source for flite, festvox, speech tools, festival and a voice from here http://festvox.org/cmu_arctic/packed (for this example: http://festvox.org/cmu_arctic/packed/cmu_us_fem_arctic.tar.bz2)

#the paths will vary on your PC. replace the paths below with the ones you're using.

#goto flite-master dir (flite source code) and
export FLITEDIR=/home/ubuntu/Desktop/festival-tests/flite
cd $FLITEDIR; ./configure; make

#goto speech_tools master dir and
export ESTDIR=/home/ubuntu/Desktop/festival-tests/speech_tools
cd $ESTDIR; ./configure; make

#goto festival dir (seems to be needed during voice build)
export FESTIVALDIR=/home/ubuntu/Desktop/festival-tests/festival
cd $FESTIVALDIR; ./configure; make; make default_voices
 
#goto festvox master dir and
export FESTVOXDIR=/home/ubuntu/Desktop/festival-tests/festvox
cd $FESTVOXDIR; ./configure; make

#goto downloaded voice, extract, goto dir:
cd /home/ubuntu/Desktop/festival-tests/cmu_us_fem_arctic
$FESTVOXDIR/src/clustergen/setup_cg cmu us fem
$FLITEDIR/tools/setup_flite
./bin/build_flite
cd flite
make

#If you also want to dump the voice,
make voicedump
make add_feats

Errors:

During the ./bin/build_flite step (for some reason it's sliping a // into the paths it's looking into)

ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Desktop/festival-tests/cmu_us_fem_arctic$ ./bin/build_flite
cg_convert: finding parameter ranges
Error reading ESPS file festival/trees/cmu_us_fem_mcep*.params
cat: etc/f0.params: No such file or directory
Error reading ESPS file /home/ubuntu/Desktop/festival-tests/cmu_us_fem_arctic//festival/trees/cmu_us_fem_mcep.params
Cannot load track: /home/ubuntu/Desktop/festival-tests/cmu_us_fem_arctic//festival/trees/cmu_us_fem_mcep.params
SIOD ERROR: could not open file /home/ubuntu/Desktop/festival-tests/cmu_us_fem_arctic//festival/trees/cmu_us_fem_mcep.tree
flite_build cg complete.  You can compile the generated voice by
   cd flite; make

during the: cd flite; make step (probably because the preceding step had failed):

cd flite; make
ls: cannot access 'cmu_us_fem_cg_*_f0_trees.c': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 'cmu_us_fem_cg_*_mcep_trees.c': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 'cmu_us_fem_cg_*_params.c': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 'cmu_us_fem_cg_*_durmodel.c': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 'cmu_us_fem_cg_*_f0_trees.c': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 'cmu_us_fem_cg_*_mcep_trees.c': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 'cmu_us_fem_cg_*_params.c': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 'cmu_us_fem_cg_*_durmodel.c': No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target 'paramfiles.mak'.  Stop.

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Oh sorry. Can you build the festvox voice and then get to flite voice? I assumed you had that voice already.

Here are the steps to build:
( after putting txt.done.data in the folder 'etc' and copying the wavefiles to 'wav'

Some text processing

./bin/do_build build_prompts etc/txt.done.data
./bin/do_build label etc/txt.done.data
./bin/do_clustergen parallel build_utts etc/txt.done.data
./bin/do_clustergen generate_statenames
./bin/do_clustergen generate_filters

Extract acoustic features

./bin/do_clustergen parallel f0_v_sptk
./bin/do_clustergen parallel mcep_sptk
./bin/do_clustergen parallel str_sptk
./bin/do_clustergen parallel combine_coeffs_me
cp festvox/clustergen.scm festvox/clustergen.scm.xxx
cat festvox/clustergen.scm.xxx |
sed 's/mixed_excitation nil/mixed_excitation t/' |
cat >festvox/clustergen.scm

Make train test split

./bin/traintest etc/txt.done.data

Train a model

./bin/do_clustergen parallel cluster etc/txt.done.data.train
./bin/do_clustergen dur etc/txt.done.data.train

Now do the flite.

It should take an hour to finish this.

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Sure, no problem. I'll give that a go. Should I do these steps before before I do the step with:
$FESTVOXDIR/src/clustergen/setup_cg cmu us fem
or after?

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After.

$FESTVOXDIR/src/clustergen/setup_cg cmu us fem

sets up the folder structure.

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Hi Sai Krishna,

I followed your instructions but still got this error at the end:

cd flite; make #gives these errors:
ls: cannot access 'cmu_us_fem_cg_*_f0_trees.c': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 'cmu_us_fem_cg_*_mcep_trees.c': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 'cmu_us_fem_cg_*_params.c': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 'cmu_us_fem_cg_*_durmodel.c': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 'cmu_us_fem_cg_*_f0_trees.c': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 'cmu_us_fem_cg_*_mcep_trees.c': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 'cmu_us_fem_cg_*_params.c': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 'cmu_us_fem_cg_*_durmodel.c': No such file or directory

When I downloaded this file: http://www.festvox.org/packed/festival/2.5/voices/festvox_cmu_us_fem_cg.tar.gz and put the contents of contents of <festvox_cmu_us_fem_cg.tar.gz>/festival/lib/voices/us/cmu_us_fem_cg into the directory where I was building the voices and re-did:

./bin/build_flite; cd flite; make

it succeeded. This is great but festvox_cmu_us_fem_cg.tar.gz is a packed version of the voice with a bunch of param binaries in it. I'm try to do everything from source. Do you know how I can go about generating these files?

<festvox_cmu_us_fem_cg.tar.gz>
files that I have not been able to generate so far:

festvox/cmu_us_fem_dur.scm
dur_rf_models/mlist
dur_rf_models/dur_14/cmu_us_fem_durdata_cg.scm
dur_rf_models/dur_08/cmu_us_fem_durdata_cg.scm
dur_rf_models/dur_01/cmu_us_fem_durdata_cg.scm
rf_models/mlistf0
rf_models/trees_14/cmu_us_fem_f0.tree
rf_models/trees_13/cmu_us_fem_f0.tree
rf_models/trees_10/cmu_us_fem_f0.tree
rf_models/mlist
rf_models/trees_09/cmu_us_fem_mcep.params
rf_models/trees_09/cmu_us_fem_mcep.tree
rf_models/trees_09/cmu_us_fem_f0.tree
rf_models/trees_06/cmu_us_fem_mcep.params
rf_models/trees_06/cmu_us_fem_mcep.tree
rf_models/trees_06/cmu_us_fem_f0.tree
rf_models/trees_19/cmu_us_fem_mcep.params
rf_models/trees_19/cmu_us_fem_mcep.tree
rf_models/trees_19/cmu_us_fem_f0.tree
festival/trees/cmu_us_fem_mcep.params
festival/trees/cmu_us_fem_mcep.tree
festival/trees/cmu_us_fem_f0.tree

This is a list of the files I was able to generate in the absence of festvox_cmu_us_fem_cg.tar.gz : https://pastebin.com/ysgZk9pg

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This uses Random Forests.

./bin/build_cg_rfs_voice should build those dependencies.

( It will run for around 12-15 hours depending on the config)

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Hey, before we continue, I just want to say thank you. You've really gone out of your way to help me and I really appreciate that.

At very bottom of this comment is my updated recipe for building a voice. At what point should I use ./bin/build_cg_rfs_voice in these steps? I've tried to do it after the ./bin/do_clustergen dur etc/txt.done.data.train step but it crashes after an hour. I'm going to play around with my setup and see if I can fix the errors on my own. I'll get back to you later on when I have a clearer picture.

Updated Voice Building Recipe

(skipping the tool building steps for the sake of brevity)

#Do text processing
./bin/do_build build_prompts etc/txt.done.data
./bin/do_build label etc/txt.done.data
./bin/do_clustergen parallel build_utts etc/txt.done.data
./bin/do_clustergen generate_statenames
./bin/do_clustergen generate_filters

#Extract acoustic features
./bin/do_clustergen parallel f0_v_sptk
./bin/do_clustergen parallel mcep_sptk
./bin/do_clustergen parallel str_sptk
./bin/do_clustergen parallel combine_coeffs_me
cp festvox/clustergen.scm festvox/clustergen.scm.xxx;cat festvox/clustergen.scm.xxx | sed 's/mixed_excitation nil/mixed_excitation t/' > festvox/clustergen.scm

#Make train test split
./bin/traintest etc/txt.done.data

#Train a model
./bin/do_clustergen parallel cluster etc/txt.done.data.train
./bin/do_clustergen dur etc/txt.done.data.train

#Now do the flite.
$FLITEDIR/tools/setup_flite
./bin/build_flite
cd flite; make

#If you also want to dump the voice,
make voicedump
make add_feats

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Sai Krishna, in your first post, you said to that after I succeed in making a voice dump (make voicedump), I can use the command "make add_feats" to add feats. As, I had stated above, using the CMU generated files found in festvox_cmu_us_fem_cg.tar.gz, I succeed in generating a voice but I forgot to mention that when I tried to do the "make add_feats" command after generating the voicedump, I got this error: "make: *** No rule to make target add_feats. Stop." I've tried using rgrep to search all the source and config files in festival,festvox,flite and speech_tools for the add_feats command and I couldn't find it. Maybe it's been renamed to something new? Do you have any suggestions?

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I've aleardy done this several times (rebuilt voice and tools from sctach). At no point is add_feats available.

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Hi,
I am running into error in the final step to create voices using flite and I hope you would help.
I have successfully trained the model and then followed the following steps.
$FLITEDIR/tools/setup_flite
./bin/build_flite
cd flite; make
The final make command works great.

But finally, when I try to run the binary created by the "make" to create voices from a given text, I run into a segmentation fault.

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./bin/do_build build_prompts etc/txt.done.data

Hi, While running the do_build I am getting the belo error.

SIOD ERROR: could not open file /projects/festival/lib/dicts/cmu/cmulex.scm
closing a file left open: ./festvox/indic_lexicon.scm
closing a file left open: ./festvox/cmu_indic_guj_lexicon.scm
closing a file left open: festvox/cmu_indic_guj_clunits.scm
closing a file left open: festvox/build_clunits.scm

I am not able to find the cmulex.scm file due to which the error is occuring. I am running this file from the voice folder that I have downloaded and extracted. Can you please provide a solution to this or any suggestion to solve this issue.
Thank you

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