| Presentation | 2017-01-21 Conversational Speech Synthesis dealing with Sequence of Sentences Ishin Fukuoka, Kazuhiko Iwata, Tetsunori Kobayashi, |
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| Abstract(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Abstract(in English) | We proposed a conversational speech synthesis system that takes account of dialogue structure-based features. Conventional studies of speech synthesis didn’t deal with a sequence of utterances, namely they had treated just one utterance or sentence. We collected and analyzed a conversational speech corpus which a professional voice talent read out. As a result, relationships between prosody and dialogue specific features such as a position and role of utterances were clarified. Then, a DNN-based speech synthesis technique is applied to represent these dialogue-structure-dependent prosodic features. Both objective and subjective experiments proved that the proposed method improves the naturalness of system utterances in mass information transmission. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | conversational speech synthesis / DNN-based speech synthesis / speech sequence / utterance analysis |
| Paper # | SP2016-74 |
| Date of Issue | 2017-01-14 (SP) |
| Conference Information | |
| Committee | SP |
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| Conference Date | 2017/1/21(1days) |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | The University of Tokyo |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | Synthesis, Generation, Prosody, etc. |
| Chair | Kazunori Mano(Shibaura Inst. of Tech.) |
| Vice Chair | Hiroki Mori(Utsunomiya Univ.) |
| Secretary | Hiroki Mori(Kobe Univ.) |
| Assistant | Taichi Asami(NTT) / Kei Hashimoto(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) |
| Paper Information | |
| Registration To | Technical Committee on Speech |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | Conversational Speech Synthesis dealing with Sequence of Sentences |
| Sub Title (in English) | |
| Keyword(1) | conversational speech synthesis |
| Keyword(2) | DNN-based speech synthesis |
| Keyword(3) | speech sequence |
| Keyword(4) | utterance analysis |
| 1st Author's Name | Ishin Fukuoka |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Waseda University(Waseda Univ.) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Kazuhiko Iwata |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Waseda University(Waseda Univ.) |
| 3rd Author's Name | Tetsunori Kobayashi |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Waseda University(Waseda Univ.) |
| Date | 2017-01-21 |
| Paper # | SP2016-74 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.116 |
| Number (no) | SP-414 |
| Page | pp.pp.59-64(SP), |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2017-01-14 (SP) |