I read several papers this week to gain background knowledge for the project(about TTS, data selection,
HMM's). Next, I set up a CS account and downloaded tools for the project. I installed the tools
that I will be working with, including Festival, HTK, HDecode, HTS, and the HTS standard demo. I then began preprocessing the Boston Radio Corpus. I wrote a script to convert .sph files to .wav files,
to get cleaner audio files. I learned some basic Python scripting in order to do this, and I hope
to continue learning more Python this summer.
HMM's). Next, I set up a CS account and downloaded tools for the project. I installed the tools
that I will be working with, including Festival, HTK, HDecode, HTS, and the HTS standard demo. I then began preprocessing the Boston Radio Corpus. I wrote a script to convert .sph files to .wav files,
to get cleaner audio files. I learned some basic Python scripting in order to do this, and I hope
to continue learning more Python this summer.