HMM-based Speech Synthesis: Fist Experiments for the Czech Language
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
HMM-based Speech Synthesis: Fist Experiments for the Czech Language
Original language description
In this paper, first experiments on statistical parametric HMM-based speech synthesis for the Czech language are described. For speech representation, two different analysis/synthesis methods were employed: traditional Mel cepstral analysis and a high-quality analysis/synthesis method STRAIGHT. Regarding the prosodic and linguistic characteristics of the Czech language, a basic set of contextual factors was proposed. Our experiments showed that disregarding syllabic structure of speech has an insignificant influence on resulting speech quality. The effect of training data amount was also studied. Results indicate, that our experimental HMM-based TTS system can produce speech of a similar quality as unit selection-based TTS system trained with a largeramount of speech data. Furthermore some simple experiments with the adaptation of trained HMMs were performed. In this manner new voices could be obtained with significantly lower amount of speech data.
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
JC - Computer hardware and software
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/2C06020" target="_blank" >2C06020: Elimination of the language barriers faced by the handicapped watchers of the Czech Television</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
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Publication year
2010
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Article name in the collection
Speech Processing
ISBN
978-80-86269-21-4
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Number of pages
8
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Publisher name
Institute of Photonics and Electronics Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague
Place of publication
Prague
Event location
Praha
Event date
Jan 1, 2010
Type of event by nationality
EUR - Evropská akce
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