| Presentation | 2015-07-06 [Poster Presentation] Acoustic features affecting the synthesis quality of theatrical delighted speech Takuya Nakashima, Kenko Ota, Kenya Jin'no, |
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| Abstract(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Abstract(in English) | We have focused on the acoustic features in the joy of acting voice in this study. This study has clarified acoustic features that influence the perception of the joy of acting voice and has investigated the degree of effect on the synthesis quality of acting voice. Currently, spectral centroid and pitch of voice have an important role in synthesizing acting voices as acoustic features. The result of subjective evaluation has shown that the preference of converted voices depended on both spectral centroid and pitch of voice. Although intonation has an important role as a theatrical feature, the result of subjective evaluation does not show the significant difference. In the last subjective evaluation, intonation has been represented by the change of amplitude. However, intonation of actual voices included not only change of amplitude but also change of speech rate. Hence in this study, a subjective evaluation has been carried out using the converted voices which represent the intonation as the change of both amplitude and speech rate. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | Speech synthesis / Synthesis quality / Emotional speech / Theatrical features |
| Paper # | CQ2015-27 |
| Date of Issue | 2015-06-29 (CQ) |
| Conference Information | |
| Committee | CQ |
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| Conference Date | 2015/7/6(2days) |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | Nara Institute of Science and Technology |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | Cooperative networks, Cooperative Mechanism (Gamification, Pricing, Distributed Computing, P2P,DTN, M2M, Iot), General |
| Chair | Kyoko Yamori(Asahi Univ.) |
| Vice Chair | Takanori Hayashi(NTT) / Hideyuki Shimonishi(NEC) |
| Secretary | Takanori Hayashi(NEC) / Hideyuki Shimonishi(Osaka Univ.) |
| Assistant | Masahiro Yamamoto(OKI) / Bo GU(Waseda Univ.) / Hirantha Abeysekera(NTT) |
| Paper Information | |
| Registration To | Technical Committee on Communication Quality |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | [Poster Presentation] Acoustic features affecting the synthesis quality of theatrical delighted speech |
| Sub Title (in English) | |
| Keyword(1) | Speech synthesis |
| Keyword(2) | Synthesis quality |
| Keyword(3) | Emotional speech |
| Keyword(4) | Theatrical features |
| 1st Author's Name | Takuya Nakashima |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Nippon Institute of Technology(NIT) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Kenko Ota |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Nippon Institute of Technology(NIT) |
| 3rd Author's Name | Kenya Jin'no |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Nippon Institute of Technology(NIT) |
| Date | 2015-07-06 |
| Paper # | CQ2015-27 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.115 |
| Number (no) | CQ-130 |
| Page | pp.pp.39-44(CQ), |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2015-06-29 (CQ) |