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| Presentation | 2017-01-21 11:00 [Poster Presentation] Designing linguistic features for expressive speech synthesis using audiobooks Chiaki Asai, Kei Sawada, Kei Hashimoto, Keiichiro Oura, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Keiichi Tokuda (Nagoya Inst. of Tech.)  SP2016-70 |
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| Abstract | (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| (in English) | In order to synthesize expressive speech, various statistical parametric speech synthesis systems have been proposed. Speech data including various speaking styles are required as training data for expressive speech synthesis. This paper proposes expressive speech synthesis using audiobooks as training data. Audiobooks include various speaking styles. However, conventional linguistic features are not appropriate for representing various speaking styles. Therefore, linguistic features for statistical parametric speech synthesis using audiobooks are proposed: 1)linguistic features above the utterance-level; 2) linguistic features expressing the speaking styles in the conversational and descriptive parts; and 3) linguistic features based on syntactic parsing. Children's English audiobooks used at the Blizzard Challenge 2016 were used for training data, and the naturalness of synthesized speech as children's audiobooks was evaluated by subjective listening tests. | |
| Keyword | (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| (in English) | statistical parametric speech synthesis / audiobook / speaking style / linguistic features / / / / | |
| Reference Info. | IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 116, no. 414, SP2016-70, pp. 35-40, Jan. 2017. | |
| Paper # | SP2016-70 | |
| Date of Issue | 2017-01-14 (SP) | |
| ISSN | Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 | |
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| Committee | SP |
| Conference Date | 2017-01-21 - 2017-01-21 |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | The University of Tokyo |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | Synthesis, Generation, Prosody, etc. |
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| Registration To | SP |
| Conference Code | 2017-01-SP |
| Language | Japanese |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | Designing linguistic features for expressive speech synthesis using audiobooks |
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| Keyword(1) | statistical parametric speech synthesis |
| Keyword(2) | audiobook |
| Keyword(3) | speaking style |
| Keyword(4) | linguistic features |
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| 1st Author's Name | Chiaki Asai |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Nagoya Institute of Technology (Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Kei Sawada |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Nagoya Institute of Technology (Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) |
| 3rd Author's Name | Kei Hashimoto |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Nagoya Institute of Technology (Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) |
| 4th Author's Name | Keiichiro Oura |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Nagoya Institute of Technology (Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) |
| 5th Author's Name | Yoshihiko Nankaku |
| 5th Author's Affiliation | Nagoya Institute of Technology (Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) |
| 6th Author's Name | Keiichi Tokuda |
| 6th Author's Affiliation | Nagoya Institute of Technology (Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) |
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| Date Time | 2017-01-21 11:00:00 |
| Presentation Time | 60 minutes |
| Registration for | SP |
| Paper # | SP2016-70 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.116 |
| Number (no) | no.414 |
| Page | pp.35-40 |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2017-01-14 (SP) |
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