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ABSTRACT This paper describes our recent investigation on the ,use of both,intra-syllable and ,cross-syllable acoustic ,units for Cantonese text-to-speech synthesis. In our previous work, isolated monosyllable ,units were ,used ,for concatenative speech,synthesis of Cantonese. ,The synthetic speech ,was considered to be ,unnatural in such ,a way ,that there was an obvious lack of perceptual ,continuity. The proposed ,system adopts an acoustic ,inventory that covers all legitimate intrasyllable and ,cross-syllable acoustic units. Synthetic speech produced,via concatenation ,of such ,sub-syllable units better captures the pertinent transitory effects ,that are crucial to perceived,naturalness. Different strategies are ,used ,to concatenate speech segments,with different acoustic-phonetic properties. Subjective listening test shows ,a noticeable performance,improvement ,that is accounted ,for mainly ,by smoother transition between sonorant segments. |
Year | Venue | Keywords |
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2001 | INTERSPEECH | speech synthesis,speech segmentation |
Field | DocType | Citations |
Speech synthesis,Computer science,Naturalness,Speech recognition,Concatenation,Syllable,Text to speech synthesis,Sonorant,Perception,Performance improvement | Conference | 3 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.64 | 2 | 3 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ka Man Law | 1 | 4 | 1.27 |
| Tan Lee | 2 | 476 | 74.69 |
| Wai H. Lau | 3 | 25 | 4.43 |