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htk silence removal
User: rajesh
Date: 8/12/2009 12:32 am
Views: 5656
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Hi,

I'm trying to perform silence removal on utterances using htk but I keep getting errors.I tried using HCopy with the silence parameters in the config file.

Can someone help me with this?

~rajesh

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Re: htk silence removal
User: nsh
Date: 8/12/2009 2:17 am
Views: 100
Rating: 3

> Can someone help me with this?


Sure, with the answer that has the same amount information as the question.

 

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Re: htk silence removal
User: rajesh
Date: 8/12/2009 3:57 am
Views: 159
Rating: 2

ok..so the parameters I used are as follows

SOURCEKIND = WAVEFORM
TARGETKIND = WAVEFORM
USESILDET = T
MEASURESIL = T

and I said

HCopy -C config src.wav targt.wav

am I missing something?

 

--- (Edited on 8/12/2009 3:57 am [GMT-0500] by ) ---

Re: htk silence removal
User: nsh
Date: 8/13/2009 6:30 pm
Views: 222
Rating: 2

HTK only applies the silence detector if you extract features (do a framing processing).  Silence detector is disabled when you copy from wav to wav, this way you can only chop the files.

 

 

--- (Edited on 8/13/2009 6:30 pm [GMT-0500] by nsh) ---

Re: htk silence removal
User: Visitor
Date: 9/23/2009 8:04 pm
Views: 2022
Rating: 1

 So from what you are saying if I am going from SOURCEFORMAT=NIST to TARGETKIND=MFCC_0 and have USESILDET=T silence detection/removal should occur?

My configuration is as follows:

SOURCEFORMAT = NIST

TARGETKIND = MFCC_0

TARGETRATE = 100000.0

WINDOWSIZE = 250000.0

USEHAMMING = T

PREEMCOEF = 0.97

NUMCHANS = 26

CEPLIFTER = 22

NUMCEPS = 12

ENORMALISE = F

USESILDET = T

MEASURESIL = T

OUTSILWARN = T

However, when I run HCopy I get the same output as I do when I run HCopy with the same configuration file minus the last three lines (USESILDET, MEASURESIL, OUTSILWARN).

Thoughts?

--- (Edited on 9/23/2009 8:04 pm [GMT-0500] by Visitor) ---

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