Tuning Limited Domain Speech Synthesis Using General Text-to-Speech System

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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10816-2_49" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-319-10816-2_49</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Tuning Limited Domain Speech Synthesis Using General Text-to-Speech System
Original language description
The subject of the present paper is the building of a limited domain speech synthesis system, where longer units, like words and phrases, can naturally be concatenated together. However, instead of building a single-purpose domain-oriented engine workingwith longer units, we show that a general-purpose TTS system can be used as a good emulation tool to ensure that a real domain-oriented engine will work correctly. Since the current general speech synthesis system embedding unit selection method concatenates short speech units (diphones), the selection algorithm has been modified to pretend the concatenation of words or even the whole phrases, while still concatenating diphones internally. The behaviour of the system is tested on two limited domains and its output is compared to the output of general (unmodified) version of the same TTS system. The results show clear encouragement for the build of the "real" domain-oriented engine.
Czech name
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Czech description
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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)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Text, Speech, and Dialogue, 17th International Conference, TSD 2014, Brno, Czech Republic, September 8-12, 2014. Proceedings
ISBN
978-3-319-10815-5
ISSN
0302-9743
e-ISSN
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Number of pages
8
Pages from-to
408-415
Publisher name
Springer
Place of publication
Heidelberg
Event location
Brno, Czech Republic
Event date
Sep 8, 2014
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
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