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| Presentation | 2017-03-02 09:00 [Poster Presentation] Individuality-Preserving HMM Sound Synthesis System for Articulation Disorders Reina Ueda (Kobe Univ.), Tetsuya Takiguchi (Kobe Univ./JST PRESTO), Yasuo Ariki (Kobe Univ.)  EA2016-136 SIP2016-191 SP2016-131 |
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| Abstract | (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| (in English) | This paper presents a speech synthesis method for a person with an articulation disorder resulting from the athetoid type of cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy results from damage to the central nervous system, and the damage causes movement disorders. Because his/her rip movements are sometimes more unstable than usual due to the athetoid symptoms, their utterances (especially their consonants) are often unstable or unclear. This is why there is great need for speech synthesis system to aid them in their communication. In this paper, we propose an HMM-based speech synthesis method for articulation disorders. To generate the intelligible voice while preserving the speaker's individuality, our training data include the voice of a physically unimpaired person. Then we modified patient's spectrum, pitch and duration by using features of a physically unimpaired person. The experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method achieves the output synthesized signals which are intelligible and preserve the patient's individuality. |
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| Keyword | (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| (in English) | Speech Synthesis System / HMM / Articulation Disorders / Similarity / Intelligibility / / / | |
| Reference Info. | IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 116, no. 477, SP2016-131, pp. 301-306, March 2017. | |
| Paper # | SP2016-131 | |
| Date of Issue | 2017-02-22 (EA, SIP, SP) | |
| ISSN | Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 | |
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| Conference Information | |
| Committee | SP SIP EA |
| Conference Date | 2017-03-01 - 2017-03-02 |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | Okinawa Industry Support Center |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | Speech, Engineering/Electro Acoustics, Signal Processing, and Related Topics |
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| Registration To | SP |
| Conference Code | 2017-03-SP-SIP-EA |
| Language | Japanese |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | Individuality-Preserving HMM Sound Synthesis System for Articulation Disorders |
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| Keyword(1) | Speech Synthesis System |
| Keyword(2) | HMM |
| Keyword(3) | Articulation Disorders |
| Keyword(4) | Similarity |
| Keyword(5) | Intelligibility |
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| 1st Author's Name | Reina Ueda |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Kobe University (Kobe Univ.) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Tetsuya Takiguchi |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Kobe University /JST PRESTO (Kobe Univ./JST PRESTO) |
| 3rd Author's Name | Yasuo Ariki |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Kobe University (Kobe Univ.) |
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| Date Time | 2017-03-02 09:00:00 |
| Presentation Time | 90 minutes |
| Registration for | SP |
| Paper # | EA2016-136, SIP2016-191, SP2016-131 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.116 |
| Number (no) | no.475(EA), no.476(SIP), no.477(SP) |
| Page | pp.301-306 |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2017-02-22 (EA, SIP, SP) |
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