| Presentation | 2016-03-04 Articulation Improvement of Synthesized Rapid Speech Considering Phonological Information Shunsuke Saga, Yasuo Horiuchi, Shingo Kuroiwa, |
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| PDF Download Page |  PDF download Page Link |
| Abstract(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Abstract(in English) | Screen reader allows the visually impaired to read the text on the PC screen with synthesized speech and it takes a long time to read aloud. For this reason, many visually impaired users set the reading speed at rather high rate. However, the speech becomes more difficult to hear as the speed becomes faster, therefore easily heard voice has been desired. When the waveform is trimmed to make a faster voice, the consonant with short duration might be deleted. In this study, we proposed a speech rate conversion method to maintain the consonant part of plosive and liquid which have a short duration and trim the subsequent vowel part. As a result of listening experiments for hearing people, the effectiveness of the proposed method was shown. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | Visually Impaired Person / Screen Reader / Phonological Information |
| Paper # | WIT2015-94 |
| Date of Issue | 2016-02-26 (WIT) |
| Conference Information | |
| Committee | WIT |
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| Conference Date | 2016/3/4(2days) |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | Tusukuba Univ. of Tech.(Tsukuba) |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | Hearing / Visually impaired person support technology, etc. |
| Chair | Kiyohiko Nunokawa(Tokyo International Univ.) |
| Vice Chair | Chikamune Wada(Kyushu Inst. of Tech.) |
| Secretary | Chikamune Wada(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) |
| Assistant | Tomohiro Amemiya(NTT) / Takeaki Shionome(Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.) / Manabi Miyagi(Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.) |
| Paper Information | |
| Registration To | Technical Committee on Well-being Information Technology |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | Articulation Improvement of Synthesized Rapid Speech Considering Phonological Information |
| Sub Title (in English) | |
| Keyword(1) | Visually Impaired Person |
| Keyword(2) | Screen Reader |
| Keyword(3) | Phonological Information |
| 1st Author's Name | Shunsuke Saga |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Chiba University(Chiba Univ.) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Yasuo Horiuchi |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Chiba University(Chiba Univ.) |
| 3rd Author's Name | Shingo Kuroiwa |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Chiba University(Chiba Univ.) |
| Date | 2016-03-04 |
| Paper # | WIT2015-94 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.115 |
| Number (no) | WIT-491 |
| Page | pp.pp.31-36(WIT), |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2016-02-26 (WIT) |