New voice: Kathleen

[rmcpantoja]

This is an English US adult female voice reading prompts from Arctic. Trained with world-harvest.
Currently it is beta because audio needs to be edited to remove some reverb.

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[Olga-Yakovleva]

I've tried this voice out on some text. The prosody is overall very flat, even compared to other English voices RHVoice has right now. At the same time it sometimes goes very high briefly. Looking up the corpus on Github, the recordings seem inconsistent, some very expressive, with multiple versions of some sentences. HTS hasn't coped with them well. This voice doesn't seem ready to be published in the app yet.

[rmcpantoja]

I've tried this voice out on some text. The prosody is overall very flat, even compared to other English voices RHVoice has right now. At the same time it sometimes goes very high briefly. Looking up the corpus on Github, the recordings seem inconsistent, some very expressive, with multiple versions of some sentences. HTS hasn't coped with them well. This voice doesn't seem ready to be published in the app yet.

Hi @Olga-Yakovleva,
Yes, I noticed that. That's why I named it Kathleen-beta in the json file for the package, which would be fine for it to be added only in alpha/beta testing for now until we have a more stable version. All this without mentioning that in an old version the prosody was worse with the default pitch extraction method, but world-harvest improved a lot.
From the multiple versions, I will choose only one that have the most expressiveness, and I will remove reverb along with some other audio edits, choosing the parameters carefully so as not to harm the quality, then retrain and see how much improved.

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