| Presentation | 1998/9/11 State Duration Modeling for HMM-Based Speech Synthesis Takayoshi Yoshimura, Keiichi Tokuda, Takashi Masuko, Takao Kobayashi, Tadashi Kitamura, |
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| Abstract(in English) | This paper proposes a new approach to state duration modeling for HMM-based speech synthesis. A set of state durations of each phoneme HMM is modeled by a multi-dimensional Gaussian distribution. Duration models are clustered using a decision tree based context clustering technique. In the synthesis stage, state durations are determined by maximizing the state duration probability. In this paper, we take account of contextual factors such as mora count, stress and part-of-speech in addition to current, preceding and succeeding phonemes. Experimental results show that the synthetic speech has a good quality with natural timing. |
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| Keyword(in English) | HMM / text-to-speech synthesis / state duration model / mel-cepstrum / context clustering |
| Paper # | DSP98-85,SP98-64 |
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| Conference Date | 1998/9/11(1days) |
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| Registration To | Digital Signal Processing (DSP) |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
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| Title (in English) | State Duration Modeling for HMM-Based Speech Synthesis |
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| Keyword(1) | HMM |
| Keyword(2) | text-to-speech synthesis |
| Keyword(3) | state duration model |
| Keyword(4) | mel-cepstrum |
| 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 | Precision and Intelligence Lab., 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 | 1998/9/11 |
| Paper # | DSP98-85,SP98-64 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.98 |
| Number (no) | 262 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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