| Presentation | 1999/8/5 Simultaneous Modeling of Spectrum, Pitch and State Duration in HMM-based Speech Synthesis Takayoshi Yoshimura, Keiichi Tokuda, Takashi Masuko, Takao Kobayashi, Tadashi Kitamura, |
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| Abstract(in English) | In this paper, we describe an HMM-based speech synthesis system in which spectrum, pitch and state duration are modeled simultaneously in a unified framework of HMM. In the system, spectrum, pitch and state duration are modeled by continuous density HMMs, multi-space probability distribution HMMs and multi-dimensional Gaussian distributions, respectively. The distributions for spectral parameter, pitch parameter and the state duration are clustered independently by using a decision-tree based context clustering technique. Synthetic speech is generated by using an speech parameter generation algorithm from HMM and a mel-cepstrum based vocoding technique. Through informal listening tests, we have confirmed that the proposed system successfully synthesizes natural-sounding speech which resembles the speaker in the training database. |
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| Keyword(in English) | HMM / text-to-speech synthesis / mel-cepstrum / prosodic model / context clustering |
| Paper # | SP99-59 |
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| Conference Date | 1999/8/5(1days) |
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| Language | JPN |
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| Title (in English) | Simultaneous Modeling of Spectrum, Pitch and State Duration in HMM-based Speech Synthesis |
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| Keyword(1) | HMM |
| Keyword(2) | text-to-speech synthesis |
| Keyword(3) | mel-cepstrum |
| Keyword(4) | prosodic model |
| Keyword(5) | context clustering |
| 1st Author's Name | Takayoshi Yoshimura |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Department of Computer Science, Nagoya Inst. of Tech.() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Keiichi Tokuda |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Department of Computer Science, Nagoya Inst. of Tech. |
| 3rd Author's Name | Takashi Masuko |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering,Tokyo Inst.of Tech. |
| 4th Author's Name | Takao Kobayashi |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering,Tokyo Inst.of Tech. |
| 5th Author's Name | Tadashi Kitamura |
| 5th Author's Affiliation | Department of Computer Science, Nagoya Inst. of Tech. |
| Date | 1999/8/5 |
| Paper # | SP99-59 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.99 |
| Number (no) | 255 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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