Template-based methods for sentence generation and speech synthesis

Hiroyuki Segi; Reiko Takou; Nobumasa Seiyama; Tohru Takagi; Hideo Saito; Shinji Ozawa

doi:10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5946842

Template-based methods for sentence generation and speech synthesis

Hiroyuki Segi, Reiko Takou, Nobumasa Seiyama, Tohru Takagi, Hideo Saito, Shinji Ozawa

Department of Information and Computer Science

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Abstract

Here we propose a sentence-generation method using templates that can be applied to create a speech database. This method requires the recording of a relatively small sentence set, and the resultant speech database can generate comparatively natural sounding synthesized speech. Applying this method to the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) weather report radio program reduced the size of the required sentence set to just a fraction of that required by comparable methods. We also propose a speech-synthesis method using templates. In an evaluation test, 66% of the speech samples synthesized by the proposed method using templates were preferred to those produced by the conventional concatenative speech-synthesis method.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011 - Proceedings
Pages	1757-1760
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5946842
Publication status	Published - 2011 Aug 18
Event	36th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011 - Prague, Czech Republic Duration: 2011 May 22 → 2011 May 27

Publication series

Name	ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)	1520-6149

Other

Other	36th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011
Country	Czech Republic
City	Prague
Period	11/5/22 → 11/5/27

Keywords

recording sentences
sentence generation
speech database
speech synthesis
templates

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Signal Processing
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Segi, H., Takou, R., Seiyama, N., Takagi, T., Saito, H., & Ozawa, S. (2011). Template-based methods for sentence generation and speech synthesis. In 2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011 - Proceedings (pp. 1757-1760). [5946842] (ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5946842

Template-based methods for sentence generation and speech synthesis. / Segi, Hiroyuki; Takou, Reiko; Seiyama, Nobumasa; Takagi, Tohru; Saito, Hideo; Ozawa, Shinji.

2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011 - Proceedings. 2011. p. 1757-1760 5946842 (ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Segi, H, Takou, R, Seiyama, N, Takagi, T, Saito, H & Ozawa, S 2011, Template-based methods for sentence generation and speech synthesis. in 2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011 - Proceedings., 5946842, ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, pp. 1757-1760, 36th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011, Prague, Czech Republic, 11/5/22. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5946842

Segi H, Takou R, Seiyama N, Takagi T, Saito H, Ozawa S. Template-based methods for sentence generation and speech synthesis. In 2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011 - Proceedings. 2011. p. 1757-1760. 5946842. (ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5946842

Segi, Hiroyuki ; Takou, Reiko ; Seiyama, Nobumasa ; Takagi, Tohru ; Saito, Hideo ; Ozawa, Shinji. / Template-based methods for sentence generation and speech synthesis. 2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011 - Proceedings. 2011. pp. 1757-1760 (ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings).

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