[misterhouse-users] [awb@cs.cmu.edu: Re: festival volume]

[Randall P. <rp...@ow...>]

this was the response I received from the author of festival.  This is exactly what the problem was for me.

By the way someone mentioned earlier that they had added the "(set! default_after_synt...." lines to some file.  Make sure
its in the siteinit.scm file..  

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OK this works for me, so there must be something else different, I 
just rechecked it.

Let me start with the obvious things. Do you have anything else in
your siteinit.scm like selection of other voices.  This setting of
default_after_synth_hooks has to happne before the default voice is selected.

I had a look aroung and note the kal_diphone voices brazenly sets a volume
value itself overriding this default, so if you are using kal_diphone
this doesn't work.  There the solution is to edit 
   festival/lib/voice/english/kal_diphone/festvox/kal_diphone.scm
and with semicolons comment out the part (or delete it)

  (set! after_synth_hooks 
	(lambda (utt) 
	  (utt.wave.rescale utt 2.6)))

I checked the other major voices and seems to be the only one with
that mistake (I wrote that bit so I can blame anyone but myself),
but if you are using a different voice and you still dont
get the default_after_synth_hooks working check its ..../*_diphone.scm
file for anything that sets after_synth_hooks.

If the above isn't the problem let me know and we'll take a closer
look.

Alan

Alan W Black                                email: aw...@cs...
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