| Presentation | 2001/5/18 Perceptual Evaluation of Naturalness Degradation Due to Substitution of Phonetic Environment for Concatenative Speech Synthesis Hisashi KAWAI, Minoru TSUZAKI, Tsuyoshi MASUDA, Hideki IWASAWA, |
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| Abstract(in English) | In order to estimate degradation of naturalness in concatenative speech synthesis due to mismatch of phonetic environments between unit selection and its use, perceptual experiments were conducted using speech stimuli synthesized by concatenating V and CV extracted from separate utterances. The results for substitution of the succeeding environment of a vowel showed that (1) the naturalness was low when a vowel segment was used before [y, w]; (2) environments of extraction and usage asymmetrically affected the naturalness. On the other hand, the results for substitution of the preceding environment of a consonant showed that the naturalhess was (1) high for vowel [i], while the naturalness was low for [N, a]; (2) affected more by the kind of consonant than by the preceding environment; (3) especially high when consonant was voiceless plosives, affricates, and fricatives. |
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| Keyword(in English) | speech synthesis / waveform concatenation / unit selection / phonetic environment / naturalness / perception test |
| Paper # | SP2001-22 |
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| Committee | SP |
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| Conference Date | 2001/5/18(1days) |
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| Registration To | Speech (SP) |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
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| Title (in English) | Perceptual Evaluation of Naturalness Degradation Due to Substitution of Phonetic Environment for Concatenative Speech Synthesis |
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| Keyword(1) | speech synthesis |
| Keyword(2) | waveform concatenation |
| Keyword(3) | unit selection |
| Keyword(4) | phonetic environment |
| Keyword(5) | naturalness |
| Keyword(6) | perception test |
| 1st Author's Name | Hisashi KAWAI |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Minoru TSUZAKI |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories |
| 3rd Author's Name | Tsuyoshi MASUDA |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Nara Institute of Science and Technology |
| 4th Author's Name | Hideki IWASAWA |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | CREST |
| Date | 2001/5/18 |
| Paper # | SP2001-22 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.101 |
| Number (no) | 87 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 7 |
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