| Presentation | 2015-12-03 Evaluation of text-to-speech system construction for unknown-pronunciation languages Kei Sawada, Kei Hashimoto, Keiichiro Oura, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Keiichi Tokuda, |
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| Abstract(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Abstract(in English) | This paper discusses a method to construction of text-to-speech (TTS) systems for unknown-pronunciation languages. There are thousands of written languages in the world. One goal of the speech synthesis research is to establish a framework that can be applied to build TTS systems of any written languages. Generally, a language-specific knowledge is required to construct TTS systems for a new language. Therefore, a TTS system construction for a new language takes a huge cost. To address this problem, we investigate a framework to automatically construct a TTS system from a target language database consisting of only speech data and texts without using a language-specific knowledge. We evaluate impacts of components in the proposed method. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | text-to-speech system / statistical parametric speech synthesis / multilingual speech synthesis / written language / automatic construction |
| Paper # | SP2015-80 |
| Date of Issue | 2015-11-25 (SP) |
| Conference Information | |
| Committee | NLC / IPSJ-NL / SP / IPSJ-SLP |
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| Conference Date | 2015/12/2(3days) |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | Nagoya Inst of Tech. |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | The Second Natural Language Processing Symposium & The 17th Spoken Language Symposium |
| Chair | Koichi Takeuchi(Okayama Univ.) / Kentaro Inui(Tohoku Univ.) / Kazunori Mano(Shibaura Inst. of Tech.) / Koichi Shinoda(東工大) |
| Vice Chair | Hiroshi Kanayama(IBM) / Makoto Ichise(NTT DoCoMo) / / Norihide Kitaoka(Tokushima Univ.) |
| Secretary | Hiroshi Kanayama(Univ. of Tokyo/Hottolink) / Makoto Ichise(Ryukoku Univ.) / (Osaka Univ.) / Norihide Kitaoka(Tohoku Univ.) / (Mixi Co. Ltd.) |
| Assistant | Kazutaka Shimada(Kyushu Inst. of Tech.) / Ryuichiro Higashinaka(NTT) / / Takashi Nose(Tohoku Univ.) / Taichi Asami(NTT) |
| Paper Information | |
| Registration To | Technical Committee on Natural Language Understanding and Models of Communication / Special Interest Group on Natural Language / Technical Committee on Speech / 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) | Evaluation of text-to-speech system construction for unknown-pronunciation languages |
| Sub Title (in English) | |
| Keyword(1) | text-to-speech system |
| Keyword(2) | statistical parametric speech synthesis |
| Keyword(3) | multilingual speech synthesis |
| Keyword(4) | written language |
| Keyword(5) | automatic construction |
| 1st Author's Name | Kei Sawada |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Nagoya Institute of Technology(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Kei Hashimoto |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Nagoya Institute of Technology(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) |
| 3rd Author's Name | Keiichiro Oura |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Nagoya Institute of Technology(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) |
| 4th Author's Name | Yoshihiko Nankaku |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Nagoya Institute of Technology(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) |
| 5th Author's Name | Keiichi Tokuda |
| 5th Author's Affiliation | Nagoya Institute of Technology(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) |
| Date | 2015-12-03 |
| Paper # | SP2015-80 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.115 |
| Number (no) | SP-346 |
| Page | pp.pp.93-98(SP), |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2015-11-25 (SP) |