| Presentation | 2001/9/21 Introduction of Mixed Excitation Model and Postfilter to HMM-based Speech Synthesis Takayoshi YOSHIMURA, Keiichi TOKUDA, Takashi MASUKO, Takao KOBAYASHI, Tadashi KITAMURA, |
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| Abstract(in English) | In our previous works, we proposed an HMM-based text-to-speech synthesis system. In the system, mel-cepstrum, pitch and duration are modeled in a frame work of HMM. Speech is synthesized using mel-cepstrum and pitch which are generated from HMMs themselves. However, it has often buzzy quality since the system uses a traditional excitation model with either a periodic impulse train or white noise. In this paper, a mixed excitation model is incorporated to the system instead of the traditional excitation model. In addition, a intelligibility of synthesized speech is improved by using a postfilter. The result of a listening test shows that the mixed excitation model and postfilter significantly improves quality of synthesized speech. |
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| Keyword(in English) | hidden Markov model / text-to-speech synthesis / mixed excitation model / postfilter |
| Paper # | DSP2001-90,SP2001-63 |
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| Conference Date | 2001/9/21(1days) |
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| Language | JPN |
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| Title (in English) | Introduction of Mixed Excitation Model and Postfilter to HMM-based Speech Synthesis |
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| Keyword(1) | hidden Markov model |
| Keyword(2) | text-to-speech synthesis |
| Keyword(3) | mixed excitation model |
| Keyword(4) | postfilter |
| 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 | 2001/9/21 |
| Paper # | DSP2001-90,SP2001-63 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.101 |
| Number (no) | 325 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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