| Presentation | 2003/8/15 Optimizing Sub-Cost Functions for Segment Selection Based on Perceptual Evaluations in Concatenative Speech Synthesis Tomoki TODA, Hisashi KAWAI, Minoru TSUZAKI, |
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| Abstract(in English) | In concatenative speech synthesis, the naturalness of synthetic speech is affected by various factors. A cost for segment selection is calculated by integrating some sub-costs capturing the degradation of naturalness caused by such factors. In this paper, we optimize each sub-cost function for converting a feature into a sub-cost based on perceptual evaluations. Test sets for evaluating sub-costs are constructed by controlling variations of sub-costs to focus on each sub-cost to be evaluated. We clarify the effectiveness of optimizing sub-cost functions based on perceptual evaluations from a result of a preference test comparing synthetic speech before optimizing sub-cost functions with that after optimizing sub-cost functions. |
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| Keyword(in English) | Concatenative speech synthesis / Segment selection / Sub-cost functions / Perceptual evaluations / Degradation of naturalness |
| Paper # | SP2003-81 |
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| Conference Date | 2003/8/15(1days) |
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| Language | JPN |
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| Title (in English) | Optimizing Sub-Cost Functions for Segment Selection Based on Perceptual Evaluations in Concatenative Speech Synthesis |
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| Keyword(1) | Concatenative speech synthesis |
| Keyword(2) | Segment selection |
| Keyword(3) | Sub-cost functions |
| Keyword(4) | Perceptual evaluations |
| Keyword(5) | Degradation of naturalness |
| 1st Author's Name | Tomoki TODA |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Hisashi KAWAI |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories |
| 3rd Author's Name | Minoru TSUZAKI |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories |
| Date | 2003/8/15 |
| Paper # | SP2003-81 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.103 |
| Number (no) | 264 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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