| Presentation | 2016-03-29 [Poster Presentation] An experimental study of designing context labels for infant-directed storytelling speech synthesis Kyota Hyakutake, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu, |
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| Abstract(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Abstract(in English) | Context labels for infant-directed storytelling speech synthesis are investigated. After collecting one-hour storytelling speech samples, special context labels for infant-directed storytelling are designedthrough careful listening to the samples. Here, rising BPM (Boundary Pitch Movement), prolonged mora, range of intonation, and rate of reading are introduced as additional labels. Further, we differentiate descriptive passages from speech passages. Validity of the proposed context labels is examined experimentallyby building HMM speech synthesizers with the proposed labels. Results show that the top-down clustering trees depend on the new labels and the new labels can realize storytelling characteristics in the synthesized speech to some degree. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | HMM-based speech synthesis / storytelling / IDS / extended context label / listening experiment |
| Paper # | EA2015-112,SIP2015-161,SP2015-140 |
| Date of Issue | 2016-03-21 (EA, SIP, SP) |
| Conference Information | |
| Committee | EA / SP / SIP |
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| Conference Date | 2016/3/28(2days) |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | Beppu International Convention Center B-ConPlaza |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | Engineering/Electro Acoustics, Speech, Signal Processing, and Related Topics |
| Chair | Yoichi Haneda(Univ. of Electro-Comm.) / Kazunori Mano(Shibaura Inst. of Tech.) / Osamu Houshuyama(NEC) |
| Vice Chair | Yukio Iwaya(Tohoku Gakuin Univ.) / Mitsunori Mizumachi(Kyushu Inst. of Tech.) / Norihide Kitaoka(Tokushima Univ.) / Makoto Nakashizuka(Chiba Inst. of Tech.) / Masahiro Okuda(Univ. of Kitakyushu) |
| Secretary | Yukio Iwaya(NTT) / Mitsunori Mizumachi(KDDI R&D Labs.) / Norihide Kitaoka(Tokyo City Univ.) / Makoto Nakashizuka(Kobe Univ.) / Masahiro Okuda(NEC) |
| Assistant | Shoichi Koyama(Univ. of Tokyo) / Takashi Nose(Tohoku Univ.) / Taichi Asami(NTT) / Takamichi Miyata(Chiba Inst. of Tech.) |
| Paper Information | |
| Registration To | Technical Committee on Engineering Acoustics / Technical Committee on Speech / Technical Committee on Signal 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] An experimental study of designing context labels for infant-directed storytelling speech synthesis |
| Sub Title (in English) | |
| Keyword(1) | HMM-based speech synthesis |
| Keyword(2) | storytelling |
| Keyword(3) | IDS |
| Keyword(4) | extended context label |
| Keyword(5) | listening experiment |
| 1st Author's Name | Kyota Hyakutake |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | The University of Tokyo(UTokyo) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Daisuke Saito |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | The University of Tokyo(UTokyo) |
| 3rd Author's Name | Nobuaki Minematsu |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | The University of Tokyo(UTokyo) |
| Date | 2016-03-29 |
| Paper # | EA2015-112,SIP2015-161,SP2015-140 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.115 |
| Number (no) | EA-521,SIP-522,SP-523 |
| Page | pp.pp.255-260(EA), pp.255-260(SIP), pp.255-260(SP), |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2016-03-21 (EA, SIP, SP) |