Using Start/end Timings of Spectral Tran Concatenative Speech
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چکیده
The definition of “phoneme boundary timing” in a speech corpus affects the quality of concatenative speech synthesis systems. For example, if the selected speech unit is not appropriately match to the speech unit of the required phoneme environment, the quality may be degraded. In this paper, a dynamic segment boundary definition is proposed. In the definition, the concatenation point is chosen from the start or end timings of spectral transition depending on the phoneme environment at the boundaries. For a listening test to compare the naturalness of conventional/proposed methods, 100 Japanese place names were selected randomly and synthesized. The ratio of naturalness was 1 to 3.3 (conventional v.s. proposed) by four subjects.
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