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An Objective Measure for Assessment of the Concatenative TTS Segment Inventories

BATŮŠEK, Robert

Basic information

Original name

An Objective Measure for Assessment of the Concatenative TTS Segment Inventories

Authors

Edition

Aalborg, Denmark, Proceeding of Eurospeech 2001 - Scandinavia, p. 2099-2102, 2001

Publisher

Center for Personkommunikation, Aalborg University, Denmark

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

20200 2.2 Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

Country of publisher

Denmark

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14330/01:00004411

Organization unit

Faculty of Informatics

ISBN

87-90834-09-7

Keywords in English

speech synthesis; evaluation

Tags

Změněno: 10/6/2002 11:55, Mgr. Robert Batůšek

Abstract

V originále

In the paper we present a method for assessment of the segment inventories for concatenative text-to-speech synthesis. We argue that the overall comprehensibility of the synthesized speech depends on the length of the segments --- longer segments imply more intelligible speech. The problem of minimum text cover by the given segment set is formulated in the paper as well as an algorithm finding the solution. Some improvements speeding up the algorithm are discussed in the rest of the paper.

Links

GA201/99/1248, research and development project
Name: Dialogový systém pro programování zrakově postižených
Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Dialog system for support of visually impaired programmers
MSM 143300003, plan (intention)
Name: Interakce člověka s počítačem, dialogové systémy a asistivní technologie
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Human-computer interaction, dialog systems and assistive technologies