| Presentation | 2001/5/18 Formant speech sysnthesis partly using waveform concatenative synthesis : Experimental study on VCV sounds Nobuyuki Nishizawa, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose, |
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| Abstract(in English) | Use of waveform concatenative synthesis for consonant segments was examined in a formant speech synthesis system. In this paper, synthesis qualities are discussed for VCV sounds. Although a formant synthesizer can generate various quality of speech, it is not easy to create appropriate templates for consonants because of difficulties in speech analysis. Therefore, to cope with tile problem, the hybrid synthesizer is investigated. From results of intelligibility test of VCV sounds, it was shown that quality of VCV sounds were not degraded by concatenating two types of sounds. It was also shown that the hybrid synthesizer could still maintain flexibility close to the full formant synthesizer by controlling only of vowel parts. |
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| Keyword(in English) | formant synthesis / consonant / waveform concatenation / TD-PSOLA |
| Paper # | SP2001-20 |
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| Conference Date | 2001/5/18(1days) |
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| Language | JPN |
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| Title (in English) | Formant speech sysnthesis partly using waveform concatenative synthesis : Experimental study on VCV sounds |
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| Keyword(1) | formant synthesis |
| Keyword(2) | consonant |
| Keyword(3) | waveform concatenation |
| Keyword(4) | TD-PSOLA |
| 1st Author's Name | Nobuyuki Nishizawa |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering University of Tokyo() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Nobuaki Minematsu |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Information and Computer Science and Technology University of Tokyo |
| 3rd Author's Name | Keikichi Hirose |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Department of Frontier Informatics, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences University of Tokyo |
| Date | 2001/5/18 |
| Paper # | SP2001-20 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.101 |
| Number (no) | 87 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 8 |
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