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2013-12-20 16:40
Speech synthesis technologies that supports OJAD
-- An example of applying speech synthesis techniques not to synthsizing speech -- Nobuaki Minematsu, Ibuki Nakamura, Hiroya Hashimoto, Keikichi Hirose (Univ. Tokyo) SP2013-95 |
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To support Japanese prosody instruction, the Online Japanese Accent Dictionary (OJAD) has been developed by using NLP and SLP techniques and it is maintained by our laboratory. Japanese is a very unique language in that word accent often changes due to its context. The OJAD was introduced to the Japanese language education community as the first educational system that can handle context-based word accent changes very well and it is actively used by teachers and learners internationally. So far, 4-hour OJAD tutorials have been held at 10 domestic cities and 17 international cities and each tutorial was welcomed to Japanese teachers there. If we discuss development of the OJAD from a technical point of view, the OJAD uses several internal modules of Japanese speech synthesis, such as estimation of accent phrase boundaries and accent nucleus positions, and F0 pattern generation. It is interesting that the OJAD uses these techniques not for synthesizing speech. In this report, by regarding development of the OJAD as one example of using speech synthesis techniques not to synthesizing speech, we discuss new possibility of applying these techniques to new domains. |
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Japanese prosody instruction / OJAD / speech synthesis / accent estimation / F0 pattern generation / / / |
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IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 113, no. 366, SP2013-95, pp. 129-134, Dec. 2013. |
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SP2013-95 |
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2013-12-12 (SP) |
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Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 |
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SP IPSJ-SLP |
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2013-12-19 - 2013-12-20 |
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15th Symposium on Spoken Language |
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Speech synthesis technologies that supports OJAD |
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An example of applying speech synthesis techniques not to synthsizing speech |
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Japanese prosody instruction |
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OJAD |
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speech synthesis |
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accent estimation |
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F0 pattern generation |
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Nobuaki Minematsu |
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The University of Tokyo (Univ. Tokyo) |
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Ibuki Nakamura |
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The University of Tokyo (Univ. Tokyo) |
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Hiroya Hashimoto |
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The University of Tokyo (Univ. Tokyo) |
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Keikichi Hirose |
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The University of Tokyo (Univ. Tokyo) |
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Date Time |
2013-12-20 16:40:00 |
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25 minutes |
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SP2013-95 |
Volume (vol) |
vol.113 |
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no.366 |
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pp.129-134 |
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6 |
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2013-12-12 (SP) |
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