| Presentation | 2008-12-10 Segmentation of Spoken Language into unit of Utterance Fragment using Acoustics Features Katsuyoshi SETOYAMA, Hideki KASHIOKA, Nick CAMPBELL, |
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| Abstract(in English) | It is common for speech synthesis technology to process each sentence as one single and independent unit. However, in human speech production, it is perhaps unusual to process a long utterance as a single discrete unit, and typically a series of short utterance fragments is produced in such cases. Such a fragmentary short utterance is assumed to be a minimal discourse unit, and it is proposed here that similar chunks should be used as the basic units for speech synthesis in order to speed-up the calculation processing. In this paper, the acoustic features of such utterance fragments is modeled by HMM, and the paper reports on the result of an experimental the segmentation of a natural speech corpus into optimal units for processing as utterance fragments according to the the model. The ESP-C casual conversation speech corpus was used as material for the experiment. |
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| Keyword(in English) | Utterance fragments / Dialogue Corpus / Spontaneous Speech Synthesis / Acoustics features / Speech Segmentation |
| Paper # | NLC2008-35,SP2008-90 |
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| Committee | NLC |
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| Conference Date | 2008/12/2(1days) |
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| Language | JPN |
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| Title (in English) | Segmentation of Spoken Language into unit of Utterance Fragment using Acoustics Features |
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| Keyword(1) | Utterance fragments |
| Keyword(2) | Dialogue Corpus |
| Keyword(3) | Spontaneous Speech Synthesis |
| Keyword(4) | Acoustics features |
| Keyword(5) | Speech Segmentation |
| 1st Author's Name | Katsuyoshi SETOYAMA |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Nara Institute of Science and Technology() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Hideki KASHIOKA |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Nara Institute of Science and Technology:National Institute of Information and Communications Technology:Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International |
| 3rd Author's Name | Nick CAMPBELL |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Nara Institute of Science and Technology:National Institute of Information and Communications Technology:Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International |
| Date | 2008-12-10 |
| Paper # | NLC2008-35,SP2008-90 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.108 |
| Number (no) | 337 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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