DocumentCode
1937643
Title
An objective measure for assessment of a corpus-based text-to-speech system
Author
Xu, Jun ; Guan, Cuntai ; Li, Haizhou
Author_Institution
InfoTalk Technol. (Singapore) Pte Ltd, Singapore, Singapore
fYear
2002
fDate
11-13 Sept. 2002
Firstpage
179
Lastpage
182
Abstract
The primary goal of this work is to find an objective measure to track the performance of a corpus-based TTS system. This paper proposed a new objective measure using the dynamic time warping (DTW) algorithm to calculate the distortion distance between the original utterances originated from the speech corpus and the target utterances synthesized from the text corpus. A formal subjective study shows that the new objective scores are consistency with the subjective results.
Keywords
speech processing; speech synthesis; time warp simulation; DTW algorithm; TTS system assessment; corpus-based text-to-speech system; distortion distance; dynamic time warping; objective measure; performance; Area measurement; Cepstral analysis; Distortion measurement; Humans; Natural languages; Speech analysis; Speech synthesis; Synthesizers; Target tracking; Time measurement;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Speech Synthesis, 2002. Proceedings of 2002 IEEE Workshop on
Print_ISBN
0-7803-7395-2
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/WSS.2002.1224403
Filename
1224403
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