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| Paper: | SP-P9.13 |
| Session: | Topics in Speech Synthesis |
| Time: | Wednesday, May 19, 15:30 - 17:30 |
| Presentation: |
Poster |
| Topic: |
Speech Processing: Speech Synthesis (including TTS) |
| Title: |
AN EVALUATION OF AUTOMATIC PHONE SEGMENTATION FOR CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS |
| Authors: |
Hisashi Kawai; ATR, Spoken Language Translation Laboratories | | |
| | Tomoki Toda; Nagoya Institute of Technology | | |
| Abstract: |
This paper studies the performance of automatic phone segmentation from two viewpoints: (1) temporal precision and (2) effect on the naturalness of synthetic speech. The absolute error of the phone onset time for the best 90% and worst 10% were 4.6 ms and 25.9 ms, respectively. These values are comparable to discrepancies among human labelers. As the result of perception tests in which naturalness was pair-compared between synthetic speeches generated from hand-segmented data and from auto-segmented data, it was found that the latter is statistically inferior. |
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