| Presentation | 2002/1/17 An Experimental Study on Concatenative Speech Synthesis Using a Fusion Technique and VCV/VV Units Benjamin NETTRE, Keikichi HIROSE, Nobuaki MINEMATSU, |
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| Abstract(in English) | This paper presents an experimental study on a spectral smoothing technique called "unit fusion" applied to concatenation-based speech synthesis. The basic framework is TD-PSOLA, with additional spectral modifications performed on the speech frames around concatenation boundaries in order to avoid discontinuities between consecutive phonetic units. A twofold sinusoidal + all-pole model for speech was used to perform these modifications. A large database of Japanese speech was segmented in VCV and VV units and pitch marks were automatically generated using a dynamic programming technique. Experiments evaluating the modified version of TD-PSOLA have shown possible improvements in some particular cases whose common properties have yet to be determined. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | Concatenative Speech Synthesis / Unit Fusion / Sinusoidal Modeling / Spectral Modifications / TD-PSOLA / Pitch Marking |
| Paper # | 2001-SP-121 |
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| Committee | SP |
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| Conference Date | 2002/1/17(1days) |
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| Language | ENG |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
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| Title (in English) | An Experimental Study on Concatenative Speech Synthesis Using a Fusion Technique and VCV/VV Units |
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| Keyword(1) | Concatenative Speech Synthesis |
| Keyword(2) | Unit Fusion |
| Keyword(3) | Sinusoidal Modeling |
| Keyword(4) | Spectral Modifications |
| Keyword(5) | TD-PSOLA |
| Keyword(6) | Pitch Marking |
| 1st Author's Name | Benjamin NETTRE |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Keikichi HIROSE |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo |
| 3rd Author's Name | Nobuaki MINEMATSU |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo |
| Date | 2002/1/17 |
| Paper # | 2001-SP-121 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.101 |
| Number (no) | 603 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 8 |
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