| Presentation | 2009-01-30 Speech synthesis based on the plural unit selection and fusion method using FWF model Ryo MORINAKA, Masatsune TAMURA, Masahiro MORITA, Takehiko KAGOSHIMA, |
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| Abstract(in English) | In the conventional plural unit selection and fusion method, there are problems about degradation in synthesized sound from human voice and about low flexibility for applications such as voice conversion. The problem about degradation is caused by fusing aperiodic components as periodic ones. The problem about low flexibility is caused by fusing pitch cycle waveforms of selected units in time domain. In this paper, we propose a method which can generate natural synthesized speech by decomposing units into periodic and aperiodic components, and properly fusing each components respectively. Moreover, we introduced the FWF model to the proposed method. The model enhances flexibility to control formant parameters for applications such as voice conversion. |
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| Keyword(in English) | plural unit selection and fusion method / FWF model / periodic/aperiodic component |
| Paper # | SP2008-137 |
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| Conference Date | 2009/1/22(1days) |
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| Language | JPN |
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| Title (in English) | Speech synthesis based on the plural unit selection and fusion method using FWF model |
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| Keyword(1) | plural unit selection and fusion method |
| Keyword(2) | FWF model |
| Keyword(3) | periodic/aperiodic component |
| 1st Author's Name | Ryo MORINAKA |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Corporate R & D Center, TOSHIBA Corporation() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Masatsune TAMURA |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Corporate R & D Center, TOSHIBA Corporation |
| 3rd Author's Name | Masahiro MORITA |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Corporate R & D Center, TOSHIBA Corporation |
| 4th Author's Name | Takehiko KAGOSHIMA |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Corporate R & D Center, TOSHIBA Corporation |
| Date | 2009-01-30 |
| Paper # | SP2008-137 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.108 |
| Number (no) | 422 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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