| Presentation | 2003/4/18 A Study on Average Voice Model Training Using Vocal Tract Length Normalization Makoto HIROHATA, Takashi MASUKO, Takao KOBAYASHI, |
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| Abstract(in English) | This paper describes a new training technique of average voice model using speaker normalization. In the proposed technique, to reduce the influence of variability of formant frequency due to the difference in vocal tract lengths of speakers, we incorporate a vocal tract length normalization technique into training stage of the spectral part of average voice model. It is observed that average voice model trained using the proposed technique generates sharper spectral envelope than the conventional average model. Moreover, from the results of subjective tests, it is shown that the proposed technique generates average voice of better quality than models trained using the conventional or speaker adaptive training techniques. |
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| Keyword(in English) | HMM-based speech synthesis / average voice model / formant frequency / vocal tract length normalization |
| Paper # | EA2003-19,SP2003-19 |
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| Conference Date | 2003/4/18(1days) |
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| Language | JPN |
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| Title (in English) | A Study on Average Voice Model Training Using Vocal Tract Length Normalization |
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| Keyword(1) | HMM-based speech synthesis |
| Keyword(2) | average voice model |
| Keyword(3) | formant frequency |
| Keyword(4) | vocal tract length normalization |
| 1st Author's Name | Makoto HIROHATA |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Department of Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology:(Present address) Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Takashi MASUKO |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 3rd Author's Name | Takao KOBAYASHI |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| Date | 2003/4/18 |
| Paper # | EA2003-19,SP2003-19 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.103 |
| Number (no) | 25 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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