Title
Natural Sounding Sub-Word Units Concatenation in Malay Speech Synthesis
Abstract
The goal of this work was to concatenate Malay subwordswithout introducing perceptible audible discontinuities.Based on a phonemes adjacency analysis, we build a list ofnon-audible distortion sub-word unit lookup. Selecting subwordfrom this lookup will avoid spectral mismatched betweenthe joined speech units and this can guarantee the segmentalquality of the sub-words concatenation. In order to avoidprosodic mismatched, we only allow the sub-words to beconcatenated when they have the same prosodic features. Theexpectation by considering the correct prosodic features andthe non-audible discontinuities of sub-word units, a naturalsounding of sub-words concatenation is possible to be obtained.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/ICSAP.2009.40
ICSAP
Keywords
Field
DocType
prosodic feature,spectral mismatched betweenthe,sub-word unit,andthe non-audible discontinuity,selecting subwordfrom,unit lookup,correct prosodic,malay speech synthesis,sub-words concatenation,malay subwordswithout,list ofnon-audible distortion sub-word,natural sounding sub-word units,probability density function,concatenated codes,samarium,testing,signal processing,natural languages,speech synthesis,frequency,speech,degradation,dentistry,data mining
Adjacency list,Speech synthesis,Depth sounding,Computer science,Malay,Speech recognition,Natural language,Artificial intelligence,Concatenation,Natural language processing,Distortion
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
3
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sabrina Tiun1232.92
Rosni Abdullah215624.82
Tang Enya Kong3327.86