Neural Speech Synthesis with Enriched Phrase Boundaries

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F49777513%3A23520%2F23%3A43969124" target="_blank" >RIV/49777513:23520/23:43969124 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_2023/kunesova23_interspeech.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_2023/kunesova23_interspeech.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2023-1552" target="_blank" >10.21437/Interspeech.2023-1552</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Neural Speech Synthesis with Enriched Phrase Boundaries
Original language description
Prosodic phrasing is one of the factors influencing the naturalness of synthesized speech. In this paper, we enrich the phonetic representation for neural speech synthesis with additional markers denoting the strength of phrase breaks between words. These markers are assigned to the training data automatically, using our previously introduced model for audio-based phrase boundary detection. We tested the approach with two different levels of resolution for the break indices-either ten distinct levels (P10) or only “ToBI-like” four levels (P4). Listening tests with two different speaker voices show a statistically significant preference among listeners for P10 or P4 over the baseline speech synthesis without these markers (P0), although which version is judged as better depends on the voice.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GA21-14758S" target="_blank" >GA21-14758S: Prosodic Phrase in Current Spoken Czech: Meaning, Balance, Stochastic Patterns</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH
ISBN
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ISSN
2308-457X
e-ISSN
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Number of pages
5
Pages from-to
4833-4837
Publisher name
International Speech Communication Association
Place of publication
New York
Event location
Dublin, Ireland
Event date
Aug 20, 2023
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
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