• DocumentCode
    2659356
  • Title

    Methods for improving the quality of syllable based speech synthesis

  • Author

    Venugopalakrishna, Y.R. ; Vinodh, M.V. ; Murthy, Hema A. ; Ramalingam, C.S.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol. Madras, Chennai
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    15-19 Dec. 2008
  • Firstpage
    29
  • Lastpage
    32
  • Abstract
    Our earlier work [1] on speech synthesis has shown that syllables can produce reasonably natural quality speech. Nevertheless, audible artifacts are present due to discontinuities in pitch, energy, and formant trajectories at the joining point of the units. In this paper, we present some minimal signal modification techniques for reducing these artifacts.
  • Keywords
    speech processing; speech synthesis; artifact reduction; audible artifacts; natural quality speech; signal modification; syllable based speech synthesis; Acoustical engineering; Anechoic chambers; Computer science; Costs; Data engineering; Databases; Natural languages; Spectral shape; Speech synthesis; Synthesizers; LSF interpolation; Prosody; Silence correction; Speech Synthesis; Stop sounds; Syllable;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2008. SLT 2008. IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Goa
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3471-8
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3472-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SLT.2008.4777832
  • Filename
    4777832
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2659356