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Meaning of HTS Questions #463

Closed kevinmchu closed 5 years ago

kevinmchu commented 5 years ago

I wish to modify the misc/questions/questions-radio_dnn416.hed file, but I am unsure what some of the questions mean. For instance, I understand that C-Vowel is asking whether the current phone is a vowel, but I am unsure what questions such as Seg_Fw mean. Is there a resource somewhere that explains what these questions mean?

dreamk73 commented 5 years ago

Seg_Fw lists the location of the current segment in the syllable from the beginning of that syllable. Seg_Bw does the same but from the back. I'm not sure where to find more information, but maybe since it is the same as used in the HTS system, there is more information there?

RasmusD commented 5 years ago

If you download the hts demo here: http://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp/?Download Under the data folder there is a pdf explaining all of the linguistic feature meanings in the label strings. I believe the feature set extracted by merlin using festival is the same as those used by hts as they also used festival. Though there may be a variety of differences due to different dictionaries etc. etc. But the symbols are more or less the same I think.

kevinmchu commented 5 years ago

That is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.