Voice quality compensation system for speech synthesis based on unit-selection speech database

2002 ◽  
Vol 111 (3) ◽  
pp. 1154
Author(s):  
Ioannis G. Stylianou
Keyword(s):  
Speech Synthesis ◽  
Voice Quality ◽  
Compensation System ◽  
Unit Selection ◽  
Speech Database

Unit-Selection Speech Synthesis Method Using Words as Search Units

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-67
Author(s):  
Hiroyuki Segi
Keyword(s):  
Conventional Method ◽  
Speech Synthesis ◽  
Synthesis Method ◽  
Unit Selection ◽  
Human Speech ◽  
Subjective Evaluations ◽  
Synthesized Speech ◽  
Opinion Score ◽  
Speech Database

Unit-selection speech-synthesis systems have been proposed. In most of the unit-selection speech-synthesis systems, search units are rather short such as syllables, phonemes and diphones. However, when applied to large speech databases, shorter units produce more voice-waveform candidates and a larger speech database cannot be used without narrow pruning for practical use. Narrow pruning impairs the quality of the synthesized speech. Here the author examined the possibility of using words as search units. Subjective evaluations indicated that 70% of the speech synthesized by the proposed method sounded more natural than that synthesized by a conventional method. The five-point mean opinion score of the synthesized speech was 3.5, and 21% was judged to sound as natural as human speech. These results demonstrate the effectiveness of unit-selection speech synthesis using words as search units.

Development and evaluation of Polish speech corpus for unit selection speech synthesis systems

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grazyna Demenko ◽  
J. Bachan ◽  
Bernd Möbius ◽  
K. Klessa ◽  
M. Szymański ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Speech Synthesis ◽  
Speech Corpus ◽  
Unit Selection

Maximum likelihood unit selection for corpus-based speech synthesis

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abubeker Gamboa Rosales ◽  
Hamurabi Gamboa Rosales ◽  
Ruediger Hoffmann
Keyword(s):  
Maximum Likelihood ◽  
Speech Synthesis ◽  
Unit Selection ◽  
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