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| Presentation | 2008-12-10 09:30 Segmentation of Spoken Language into unit of Utterance Fragment using Acoustics Features Katsuyoshi Setoyama (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Hideki Kashioka, Nick Campbell (Nara Institute of Science and Technology/National Institute of I)  NLC2008-35 SP2008-90 |
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| Abstract | (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| (in English) | It is common for speech synthesis technology to process each sentence as one single and independent unit. However, in human speech production, it is perhaps unusual to process a long utterance as a single discrete unit, and typically a series of short utterance fragments is produced in such cases. Such a fragmentary short utterance is assumed to be a minimal discourse unit, and it is proposed here that similar chunks should be used as the basic units for speech synthesis in order to speed-up the calculation processing. In this paper, the acoustic features of such utterance fragments is modeled by HMM, and the paper reports on the result of an experimental the segmentation of a natural speech corpus into optimal units for processing as utterance fragments according to the the model. The ESP-C casual conversation speech corpus was used as material for the experiment. | |
| Keyword | (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| (in English) | Utterance fragments / Dialogue Corpus / Spontaneous Speech Synthesis / Acoustics features / Speech Segmentation / / / | |
| Reference Info. | IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 108, no. 338, SP2008-90, pp. 67-72, Dec. 2008. | |
| Paper # | SP2008-90 | |
| Date of Issue | 2008-12-02 (NLC, SP) | |
| ISSN | Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 | |
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| Conference Information | |
| Committee | SP NLC |
| Conference Date | 2008-12-09 - 2008-12-10 |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | Waseda Univ. |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
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| Registration To | SP |
| Conference Code | 2008-12-SP-NLC |
| Language | Japanese |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
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| Title (in English) | Segmentation of Spoken Language into unit of Utterance Fragment using Acoustics Features |
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| Keyword(1) | Utterance fragments |
| Keyword(2) | Dialogue Corpus |
| Keyword(3) | Spontaneous Speech Synthesis |
| Keyword(4) | Acoustics features |
| Keyword(5) | Speech Segmentation |
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| 1st Author's Name | Katsuyoshi Setoyama |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Nara Institute of Science and Technology (Nara Institute of Science and Technology) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Hideki Kashioka |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Nara Institute of Science and Technology/National Institute of Information and Communications Technology/Advanced Telecomunicati (Nara Institute of Science and Technology/National Institute of I) |
| 3rd Author's Name | Nick Campbell |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Nara Institute of Science and Technology/National Institute of Information and Communications Technology/Advanced Telecomunicati (Nara Institute of Science and Technology/National Institute of I) |
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| Speaker | Author-1 |
| Date Time | 2008-12-10 09:30:00 |
| Presentation Time | 25 minutes |
| Registration for | SP |
| Paper # | NLC2008-35, SP2008-90 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.108 |
| Number (no) | no.337(NLC), no.338(SP) |
| Page | pp.67-72 |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2008-12-02 (NLC, SP) |
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