Name
Title | ||
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ModelTalker voice recorder: an interface system for recording a corpus of speech for synthesis |
Abstract | ||
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We will demonstrate the ModelTalker Voice Recorder (MT Voice Recorder) -- an interface system that lets individuals record and bank a speech database for the creation of a synthetic voice. The system guides users through an automatic calibration process that sets pitch, amplitude, and silence. The system then prompts users with both visual (text-based) and auditory prompts. Each recording is screened for pitch, amplitude and pronunciation and users are given immediate feedback on the acceptability of each recording. Users can then rerecord an unacceptable utterance. Recordings are automatically labeled and saved and a speech database is created from these recordings. The system's intention is to make the process of recording a corpus of utterances relatively easy for those inexperienced in linguistic analysis. Ultimately, the recorded corpus and the resulting speech database is used for concatenative synthetic speech, thus allowing individuals at home or in clinics to create a synthetic voice in their own voice. The interface may prove useful for other purposes as well. The system facilitates the recording and labeling of large corpora of speech, making it useful for speech and linguistic research, and it provides immediate feedback on pronunciation, thus making it useful as a clinical learning tool. |
Year | Venue | Keywords |
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2008 | meeting of the association for computational linguistics | modeltalker voice recorder,resulting speech database,synthetic voice,immediate feedback,concatenative synthetic speech,interface system,speech database,mt voice recorder,own voice,system guides user |
Field | DocType | Volume |
Pronunciation,Speech corpus,Voice Tag,Speech processing,Voice analysis,Computer science,Voice activity detection,Utterance,Speech recognition,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Linguistic analysis | Conference | P08-4 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
1 | 0.37 | 1 |
Authors | ||
8 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debra Yarrington | 1 | 73 | 10.54 |
| John Gray | 2 | 1 | 0.37 |
| Christopher Pennington | 3 | 5 | 1.13 |
| H. Timothy Bunnell | 4 | 112 | 19.91 |
| Allegra Cornaglia | 5 | 1 | 0.37 |
| Jason Lilley | 6 | 8 | 4.32 |
| Kyoko Nagao | 7 | 1 | 0.71 |
| James Polikoff | 8 | 75 | 10.17 |