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Presentation 2009-01-30 12:15
Speech synthesis based on the plural unit selection and fusion method using FWF model.
Ryo Morinaka, Masatsune Tamura, Masahiro Morita, Takehiko Kagoshima (Toshiba Co.) SP2008-137
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(in English) In the conventional plural unit selection and fusion method, there are problems about degradation in synthesized sound from human voice and about low flexibility for applications such as voice conversion. The problem about degradation is caused by fusing aperiodic components as periodic ones. The problem about low flexibility is caused by fusing pitch cycle waveforms of selected units in time domain. In this paper, we propose a method which can generate natural synthesized speech by decomposing units into periodic and aperiodic components, and properly fusing each components respectively. Moreover, we introduced the FWF model to the proposed method. The model enhances flexibility to control formant parameters for applications such as voice conversion.
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(in English) plural unit selection and fusion method / FWF model / periodic/aperiodic component / / / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 108, no. 422, SP2008-137, pp. 67-72, Jan. 2009.
Paper # SP2008-137 
Date of Issue 2009-01-22 (SP) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Conference Date 2009-01-29 - 2009-01-30 
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Conference Code 2009-01-SP 
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Title (in English) Speech synthesis based on the plural unit selection and fusion method using FWF model. 
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Keyword(1) plural unit selection and fusion method  
Keyword(2) FWF model  
Keyword(3) periodic/aperiodic component  
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1st Author's Name Ryo Morinaka  
1st Author's Affiliation Toshiba Corporation (Toshiba Co.)
2nd Author's Name Masatsune Tamura  
2nd Author's Affiliation Toshiba Corporation (Toshiba Co.)
3rd Author's Name Masahiro Morita  
3rd Author's Affiliation Toshiba Corporation (Toshiba Co.)
4th Author's Name Takehiko Kagoshima  
4th Author's Affiliation Toshiba Corporation (Toshiba Co.)
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Date Time 2009-01-30 12:15:00 
Presentation Time 25 minutes 
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Paper # SP2008-137 
Volume (vol) vol.108 
Number (no) no.422 
Page pp.67-72 
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Date of Issue 2009-01-22 (SP) 


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