| Presentation | 2017-03-01 [Poster Presentation] Prosodic Word Embeddings for DNN-based speech synthesis Yusuke Ijima, Nobukatsu Hojo, Ryo Masumura, Taichi Asami, |
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| Abstract(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Abstract(in English) | This paper proposed a novel word embeddings with prosodic information (prosodic word embeddings) for DNN-based speech synthesis. There have been several attempts to use word embeddings for DNN-based speech synthesis. However, their word vectors do not necessarily correspond to prosodic similarity because the training data is a large text corpus. To achieve word embeddings which can take prosodic information into account, we utilize a large speech corpus such as speech corpus for automatic speech recognition. By using the corpus, the proposed technique trains the relationship between words and their prosodic information. We perform objective evaluations to compare the performance of the proposed technique with that of the conventional word embeddings. Objective evaluation results indicate that our proposed word embedding technique can generate F0 more accurately compared to the conventional technique. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | Statistical parametric speech synthesis / DNN-based speech synthesis / word embeddings |
| Paper # | EA2016-109,SIP2016-164,SP2016-104 |
| Date of Issue | 2017-02-22 (EA, SIP, SP) |
| Conference Information | |
| Committee | SP / SIP / EA |
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| Conference Date | 2017/3/1(2days) |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | Okinawa Industry Support Center |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | Speech, Engineering/Electro Acoustics, Signal Processing, and Related Topics |
| Chair | Kazunori Mano(Shibaura Inst. of Tech.) / Makoto Nakashizuka(Chiba Inst. of Tech.) / Mitsunori Mizumachi(Kyushu Inst. of Tech.) |
| Vice Chair | Hiroki Mori(Utsunomiya Univ.) / Masahiro Okuda(Univ. of Kitakyushu) / Shogo Muramatsu(Niigata Univ.) / Yoichi Haneda(Univ. of Electro-Comm.) / Suehiro Shimauchi(NTT) |
| Secretary | Hiroki Mori(Kobe Univ.) / Masahiro Okuda(Shizuoka Univ.) / Shogo Muramatsu(Ritsumeikan Univ.) / Yoichi Haneda(Chiba Inst. of Tech.) / Suehiro Shimauchi(KDDI R&D Labs.) |
| Assistant | Taichi Asami(NTT) / Kei Hashimoto(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) / Osamu Watanabe(Takushoku Univ.) / Shigeto Takeoka(Shizuoka Inst. of Science and Tech.) / TREVINO Jorge(Tohoku Univ.) |
| Paper Information | |
| Registration To | Technical Committee on Speech / Technical Committee on Signal Processing / Technical Committee on Engineering Acoustics |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | [Poster Presentation] Prosodic Word Embeddings for DNN-based speech synthesis |
| Sub Title (in English) | |
| Keyword(1) | Statistical parametric speech synthesis |
| Keyword(2) | DNN-based speech synthesis |
| Keyword(3) | word embeddings |
| 1st Author's Name | Yusuke Ijima |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation(NTT) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Nobukatsu Hojo |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation(NTT) |
| 3rd Author's Name | Ryo Masumura |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation(NTT) |
| 4th Author's Name | Taichi Asami |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation(NTT) |
| Date | 2017-03-01 |
| Paper # | EA2016-109,SIP2016-164,SP2016-104 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.116 |
| Number (no) | EA-475,SIP-476,SP-477 |
| Page | pp.pp.153-158(EA), pp.153-158(SIP), pp.153-158(SP), |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2017-02-22 (EA, SIP, SP) |