| Presentation | 1999/5/20 Simple Word Synthesis by Concatenating Syllabic Components based on Positional Features with Mora Length Noriko Mizusawa, Jin'ichi Murakami, Masanobu Higashida, |
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| Abstract(in English) | This paper proposes a method that synthesizes a huge number of words by concatenating syllabic waveforms obtained from recorded words selected carefully. This method assumes that just the mora position and the mora length represent enough of the prosodic features to realize synthesis at the word level. An experiment study to synthesize Japanese city and town names with five moras by the proposed method was carried out. Competitive opinion scores were obtained by the synthesized voices compared with those obtained by actual voices. By our estimation, only 17,000 names need to be recorded to cover the remaining names with 3, 4, and 5 mora, which totals about 105,000. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | word synthesis / slot filling method / syllable / prosodic features / mora position / mora length |
| Paper # | SP99-2 |
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| Committee | SP |
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| Conference Date | 1999/5/20(1days) |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
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| Title (in English) | Simple Word Synthesis by Concatenating Syllabic Components based on Positional Features with Mora Length |
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| Keyword(1) | word synthesis |
| Keyword(2) | slot filling method |
| Keyword(3) | syllable |
| Keyword(4) | prosodic features |
| Keyword(5) | mora position |
| Keyword(6) | mora length |
| 1st Author's Name | Noriko Mizusawa |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | NTT Information Sharing Platform Laboratories() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Jin'ichi Murakami |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Faculty of Engineering Tottori University |
| 3rd Author's Name | Masanobu Higashida |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | NTT Information Sharing Platform Laboratories |
| Date | 1999/5/20 |
| Paper # | SP99-2 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.99 |
| Number (no) | 73 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 8 |
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