First experiments on text-to-speech system personification

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

First experiments on text-to-speech system personification

Original language description

In this paper, several experiments on text-to-speech system personification are presented. The personification enables TTS system to produce new voices by employing voice conversion methods. The baseline speech synthetizer is a concatenative corpus-basedTTS system which utilizes the unit selection method. The voice identity change is performed by the spectral envelope, spectral detail and pitch transformation. Two different personification approaches are compared in this paper. The former is based on the original speech corpus transformation, the latter transforms the output of the synthesizer. Specific advantages and disadvantages of both approaches are discussed and their performance is compared in listening tests.

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

JD - Use of computers, robotics and its application

OECD FORD branch

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Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2009

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Text, speech and dialogue

ISBN

978-3-642-04207-2

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Number of pages

8

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Publisher name

Springer

Place of publication

Berlin

Event location

Plzeň

Event date

Sep 17, 2009

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000270445700026