| Presentation | 1996/2/23 Development of a Speech Stimuli Generating System for Perceptual Experiments Nobuaki MINEMATSU, Shinji KUSAKARI, Seiichi NAKAGAWA, Keikichi HIROSE, |
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| Abstract(in English) | In speech perception researches, speech stimuli after quantitative manipulation of their acoustic features are often required. And obviously, they can be realized only with speech synthesis technique. Some of the authors have been conducting experiments on the roles of prosodic features (especially F0)in speech perception also with synthesized stimuli. In this paper; a speech stimuli generating system developed to support the above experiments is described which is based on the analysis re-synthesis technique. In this system, a pitch synchronous method is not adopted because pitch extraction still include some errors and they may be troublesome in making hundreds of speech stimuli automatically. When evaluating an analysis re-synthesis method, distortion of re-synthesized speech from the original speech has been often focused upon. Considereing that only the manipulated stimuli are used in the experiments, however, "human-likeness" of the re-syntesized speech should be the index for evaluation rather than its distortion. Evaluation experiments based on "human-likeness" indicated that the re-synthesized speech with illegal accents were as human-like as the natural speech uttered also with illegal accents. |
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| Keyword(in English) | speech perception / analysis re-synthesis / LMA filter / prosodic features / human-likeness |
| Paper # | SP95-134 |
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| Conference Date | 1996/2/23(1days) |
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| Language | JPN |
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| Title (in English) | Development of a Speech Stimuli Generating System for Perceptual Experiments |
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| Keyword(1) | speech perception |
| Keyword(2) | analysis re-synthesis |
| Keyword(3) | LMA filter |
| Keyword(4) | prosodic features |
| Keyword(5) | human-likeness |
| 1st Author's Name | Nobuaki MINEMATSU |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Department of Information and Computer Sciences, Toyohashi University of Technology() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Shinji KUSAKARI |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Department of Information and Computer Sciences, Toyohashi University of Technology |
| 3rd Author's Name | Seiichi NAKAGAWA |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Department of Information and Computer Sciences, Toyohashi University of Technology |
| 4th Author's Name | Keikichi HIROSE |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Department of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Tokyo |
| Date | 1996/2/23 |
| Paper # | SP95-134 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.95 |
| Number (no) | 534 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 8 |
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