| Presentation | 2016-12-20 [Poster Presentation] Improvement of accent sandhi rules based on accent dictionary for Japanese text-to-speech systems Hiroto Aoyama, Takashi Nose, Akinori Ito, |
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| Abstract(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Abstract(in English) | In order to synthesize more natural speech in Japanese text-to-speech systems, we improved accent sandhi rules. Conventional accent sandhi rules were developed by Sagisaka et al. and they are widely used. However, since there are no rules related to numerals and counter words, estimation accuracy of accent type for accent phrases including numerals and counter words is still not sufficient. In this paper, we tried to comprehensively improve the accent sandhi rules as well as those related to numerals and counter words, with reference to accent rules at word combination defined in the accent dictionaries. In addition, accent estimation experiments were conducted using the conventional rules and the improved rules, and effectiveness of the improved rules was evaluated. The experimental results showed that correct answer rate of the estimation by the improved rules was higher than that by the conventional rules, and improvement of accuracy was confirmed. Especially, the accent estimation using newly added rules on numerals and counter words showed a larger improvement. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | Text-to-speech / Accent sandhi rules / Numerals / Counter words / Accent dictionary |
| Paper # | SP2016-54 |
| Date of Issue | 2016-12-13 (SP) |
| Conference Information | |
| Committee | SP / IPSJ-SLP / NLC / IPSJ-NL |
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| Conference Date | 2016/12/20(3days) |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | NTT Musashino R&D |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | The 18th Spoken Language Symposium & The Third Natural Language Processing Symposium |
| Chair | Kazunori Mano(Shibaura Inst. of Tech.) / Nobuaki Minematsu(Univ. Tokyo) / Hiroshi Kanayama(IBM) / Kentaro Inui(Tohoku Univ.) |
| Vice Chair | Hiroki Mori(Utsunomiya Univ.) / / Makoto Ichise(NTT DoCoMo) / Takeshi Sakaki(Univ. of Tokyo/Hottolink) |
| Secretary | Hiroki Mori(Kobe Univ.) / (Shizuoka Univ.) / Makoto Ichise(Kyoyo Univ.) / Takeshi Sakaki(Toshiba) / (Tokyo Institute of Technology) |
| Assistant | Taichi Asami(NTT) / Kei Hashimoto(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) / / Ryuichiro Higashinaka(NTT) / Mitsuo Yoshida(Toyohashi Univ. of Tech.) |
| Paper Information | |
| Registration To | Technical Committee on Speech / Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Processing / Technical Committee on Natural Language Understanding and Models of Communication / Special Interest Group on Natural Language |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | [Poster Presentation] Improvement of accent sandhi rules based on accent dictionary for Japanese text-to-speech systems |
| Sub Title (in English) | |
| Keyword(1) | Text-to-speech |
| Keyword(2) | Accent sandhi rules |
| Keyword(3) | Numerals |
| Keyword(4) | Counter words |
| Keyword(5) | Accent dictionary |
| 1st Author's Name | Hiroto Aoyama |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Tohoku University(Tohoku Univ.) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Takashi Nose |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Tohoku University(Tohoku Univ.) |
| 3rd Author's Name | Akinori Ito |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Tohoku University(Tohoku Univ.) |
| Date | 2016-12-20 |
| Paper # | SP2016-54 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.116 |
| Number (no) | SP-378 |
| Page | pp.pp.31-36(SP), |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2016-12-13 (SP) |