Title
When will synthetic speech sound human: role of rules and data
Abstract
Text-to-speech synthesis research has moved away from building general purpose systems based on an understanding of human language and speech production towards building sys- tems based on statistical algorithms applied to large text and speech corpora, and, recently, towards building such systems for specific domains. Despite substantial progress, the overall qual- ity of even the best systems is often still inadequate for broad user acceptance in applications that cannot also be handled with simple phrase splicing. This tutorial paper analyzes which prob- lems must be addressed to achieve the goal of generating natural- sounding speech in limited domains in a cost-effective way, and the roles of data and rules as we work towards solutions.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2000
INTERSPEECH
cost effectiveness,speech production
Field
DocType
Citations 
Speech analytics,General purpose,Computer science,Phrase,Speech recognition,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Speech production,Speech technology
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
15
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jan P. H. van Santen151499.66
Michael W. Macon233425.79
Andrew Cronk372.62
John-Paul Hosom423123.43
Alexander Kain537732.39
Vincent Pagel617424.60
Johan Wouters700.34