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| Presentation | 2009-06-25 14:30 A mean F0 speaker adaptation method for regression model-based F0 contour generation Hosana Kamiyama, Takahiro Shinozaki (Tokyo Inst. of Tech.), Koji Iwano (Tokyo City Univ.), Sadaoki Furui (Tokyo Inst. of Tech.)  SP2009-38 |
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| Abstract | (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| (in English) | This paper proposes a new speaker adaptation method for the fundamental frequency ($F_0$) contour generation models based on the Quantification Theory (Type I). In this method, natural $F_0$ contour producing models for standard Japanese are trained using a large amount of speech data from many speakers, and natural as well as speaker-specific $F_0$ contours are generated by adapting mean $F_0$ values using a small amount of speech data from a specific speaker. Objective evaluation results using the models made by the proposed method confirm that around five sentences are enough for speaker adaptation. Subjective evaluation results confirm that naturalness of the synthesized speech using models adapted by 50 sentences is almost equivalent to that of the synthesized speech using models trained by 450 sentences for a specific speaker. These results indicate that the proposed adaptation method can produce highly natural synthesized speech. | |
| Keyword | (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| (in English) | HMM-based Speech Synthesis / Quantification Theory (Type I) / F0 Contour Generation / Prosody Control / Speaker Adaptation / / / | |
| Reference Info. | IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 109, no. 99, SP2009-38, pp. 87-92, June 2009. | |
| Paper # | SP2009-38 | |
| Date of Issue | 2009-06-17 (SP) | |
| ISSN | Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 | |
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| Conference Information | |
| Committee | SP |
| Conference Date | 2009-06-24 - 2009-06-25 |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | Clark Memorial Hall, Hokkaido Univ. |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | emotional speech, prosody, voice quality, speech production and perception, brain activity, etc. |
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| Registration To | SP |
| Conference Code | 2009-06-SP |
| Language | Japanese |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | A mean F0 speaker adaptation method for regression model-based F0 contour generation |
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| Keyword(1) | HMM-based Speech Synthesis |
| Keyword(2) | Quantification Theory (Type I) |
| Keyword(3) | F0 Contour Generation |
| Keyword(4) | Prosody Control |
| Keyword(5) | Speaker Adaptation |
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| 1st Author's Name | Hosana Kamiyama |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Takahiro Shinozaki |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) |
| 3rd Author's Name | Koji Iwano |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Tokyo City University (Tokyo City Univ.) |
| 4th Author's Name | Sadaoki Furui |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) |
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| Date Time | 2009-06-25 14:30:00 |
| Presentation Time | 30 minutes |
| Registration for | SP |
| Paper # | SP2009-38 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.109 |
| Number (no) | no.99 |
| Page | pp.87-92 |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2009-06-17 (SP) |
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