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 |
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| Title of host publication | ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings |
| Pages | 1757-1760 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2011 |
| Event | 36th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011 - Prague, Czech Republic Duration: 2011 May 22 → 2011 May 27 |
Other
| Other | 36th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011 |
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| Country | Czech Republic |
| City | Prague |
| Period | 11/5/22 → 11/5/27 |
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Keywords
- recording sentences
- sentence generation
- speech database
- speech synthesis
- templates
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Signal Processing
- Software
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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Template-based methods for sentence generation and speech synthesis. / Segi, Hiroyuki; Takou, Reiko; Seiyama, Nobumasa; Takagi, Tohru; Saito, Hideo; Ozawa, Shinji.
ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings. 2011. p. 1757-1760 5946842.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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AU - Ozawa, Shinji
PY - 2011
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