| Presentation | 2021-03-03 [Poster Presentation] Investigation of DNN-based speech synthesis utilizing oral reading skills obtained from large scale subjective evaluation Shun Akui, Yusuke Ijima, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu, |
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| Abstract(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Abstract(in English) | So far, we have been suggested the value of `oral reading skill' based on a listening evaluation experiment as a quantitative index which represents how much the reading voice is heard as a professional narrator's one. In this paper, we attempt to utilize such information of skill for DNN-based speech synthesis by adding the value of oral reading skill to the input of the multispeaker DNN speech synthesis model. This can be expected to manipulate the reading skill of synthesized voice without changing its individuality. We considered different patterns of hidden layers the value of oral reading skill is added to. For each case, we discussed by objective evaluation and subjective evaluation based on listening experiment whether the reading skill of the synthesized voice changes as expected with its naturalness and individuality preserved. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | speech synthesis / deep neural network / oral reading skill |
| Paper # | EA2020-71,SIP2020-102,SP2020-36 |
| Date of Issue | 2021-02-24 (EA, SIP, SP) |
| Conference Information | |
| Committee | EA / US / SP / SIP / IPSJ-SLP |
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| Conference Date | 2021/3/3(2days) |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | Online |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | Speech, Engineering/Electro Acoustics, Signal Processing, Ultrasonics, and Related Topics |
| Chair | Kenichi Furuya(Oita Univ.) / Hikaru Miura(Nihon Univ.) / Hisashi Kawai(NICT) / Kazunori Hayashi(Kyoto Univ.) / 北岡 教英(豊橋技科大) |
| Vice Chair | Yoshinobu Kajikawa(Kansai Univ.) / Kentaro Matsui(NHK) / Jun Kondo(Shizuoka Univ.) / Yoshikazu Koike(Shibaura Inst. of Tech.) / / Yukihiro Bandou(NTT) / Toshihisa Tanaka(Tokyo Univ. Agri.&Tech.) |
| Secretary | Yoshinobu Kajikawa(Univ. of Tokyo) / Kentaro Matsui(NTT) / Jun Kondo(Doshisha Univ.) / Yoshikazu Koike(Tohoku Univ.) / (Univ. of Tokyo) / Yukihiro Bandou(Waseda Univ.) / Toshihisa Tanaka(Hosei Univ.) / (Waseda Univ.) |
| Assistant | Yukou Wakabayashi(Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.) / Tatsuya Komatsu(LINE) / Shinnosuke Hirata(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) / Yusuke Ijima(NTT) / Yuichi Tanaka(Tokyo Univ. Agri.&Tech.) |
| Paper Information | |
| Registration To | Technical Committee on Engineering Acoustics / Technical Committee on Ultrasonics / Technical Committee on Speech / Technical Committee on Signal Processing / Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Processing |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | [Poster Presentation] Investigation of DNN-based speech synthesis utilizing oral reading skills obtained from large scale subjective evaluation |
| Sub Title (in English) | |
| Keyword(1) | speech synthesis |
| Keyword(2) | deep neural network |
| Keyword(3) | oral reading skill |
| 1st Author's Name | Shun Akui |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | The University of Tokyo(UTokyo) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Yusuke Ijima |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation(NTT) |
| 3rd Author's Name | Daisuke Saito |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | The University of Tokyo(UTokyo) |
| 4th Author's Name | Nobuaki Minematsu |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | The University of Tokyo(UTokyo) |
| Date | 2021-03-03 |
| Paper # | EA2020-71,SIP2020-102,SP2020-36 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.120 |
| Number (no) | EA-397,SIP-398,SP-399 |
| Page | pp.pp.68-73(EA), pp.68-73(SIP), pp.68-73(SP), |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2021-02-24 (EA, SIP, SP) |