Mixed distance measures for synthetic speech evaluation

Author

Polish, Nathaniel

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

14-17 Apr 1991

Firstpage

513

Abstract

A set of speech quality distance measures has been developed. These measures are called mixed distance measures because they apply different criteria to different classes of voicing. The results of the measures are combined in what might be termed a knowledge-based approach. These measures operate in both time and frequency domains and exploit particular characteristics of the class of voicing (voiced, fricative, stop) that is examined by the measure. These measures provide a method for speech quality assessment that can be used, for example, to select and fine-tune concatenation-based synthesizer element sets

Keywords

knowledge engineering; speech intelligibility; speech synthesis; concatenation-based synthesizer; fricative; knowledge-based approach; mixed distance measures; speech quality; speech synthesis; stop; synthetic speech; voiced; voicing; Computer science; Distortion measurement; Frequency measurement; Humans; Particle measurements; Position measurement; Speech analysis; Speech synthesis; Synthesizers; Time measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1991. ICASSP-91., 1991 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Toronto, Ont.

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0003-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.1991.150389

Filename

150389