Recent advances in Japanese speech synthesis research

Author

Sagisaka, Yoshinori

Author_Institution

ATR Interpreting Telephony Res. Labs., Kyoto, Japan

fYear

1994

fDate

13-16 Apr 1994

Firstpage

146

Abstract

This paper introduces new trends in Japanese speech synthesis research focussing on computational modeling of control rules and their statistical optimization. To be free from time-consuming system building efforts, unit selection synthesis techniques have been proposed and intensive studies have been carried out on unit selection criteria and measures, as well as on selection algorithms and speech corpora from which units are extracted. As for prosody control, statistical optimization has been carried out using large speech corpora. These research efforts have enabled intelligible and very natural synthetic speech

Keywords

natural languages; optimisation; speech intelligibility; speech synthesis; statistical analysis; Japanese speech synthesis research; computational modeling; control rules; intelligible speech; prosody control; selection algorithms; speech corpora; statistical optimization; synthetic speech; unit selection criteria; unit selection measures; unit selection synthesis; Computational modeling; Control system synthesis; Control systems; Hidden Markov models; Laboratories; Speech coding; Speech recognition; Speech synthesis; Systems engineering and theory; Telecommunication control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Speech, Image Processing and Neural Networks, 1994. Proceedings, ISSIPNN '94., 1994 International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1865-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SIPNN.1994.344945

Filename

344945