Memorias de investigación
Ponencias en congresos:
Towards Glottal Source Controllability in Expressive Speech Synthesis
Año:2012
Áreas de investigación
  • Tecnología electrónica y de las comunicaciones,
  • Ingeniería eléctrica, electrónica y automática
Datos
Descripción
In order to obtain more human like sounding humanmachine interfaces we must first be able to give them expressive capabilities in the way of emotional and stylistic features so as to closely adequate them to the intended task. If we want to replicate those features it is not enough to merely replicate the prosodic information of fundamental frequency and speaking rhythm. The proposed additional layer is the modification of the glottal model, for which we make use of the GlottHMM parameters. This paper analyzes the viability of such an approach by verifying that the expressive nuances are captured by the aforementioned features, obtaining 95% recognition rates on styled speaking and 82% on emotional speech. Then we evaluate the effect of speaker bias and recording environment on the source modeling in order to quantify possible problems when analyzing multi-speaker databases. Finally we propose a speaking styles separation for Spanish based on prosodic features and check its perceptual significance.
Internacional
Si
Nombre congreso
InterSpeech 2012, 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association
Tipo de participación
960
Lugar del congreso
Portland, Oregon
Revisores
Si
ISBN o ISSN
1990-9772
DOI
Fecha inicio congreso
09/09/2012
Fecha fin congreso
13/09/2012
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Título de las actas
InterSpeech 2012, 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association
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Participantes
  • Autor: Jaime Lorenzo Trueba UPM
  • Autor: Roberto Barra Chicote UPM
  • Autor: Tuomo Raitio Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics, Aalto University, Finland
  • Autor: Nicolas Obin Sound Analysis and Synthesis, IRCAM, Paris, France
  • Autor: Paavo Alku Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics, Aalto University, Finland
  • Autor: Yunichi Yamagishi CSTR, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
  • Autor: Juan Manuel Montero Martinez UPM
Grupos de investigación, Departamentos, Centros e Institutos de I+D+i relacionados
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Grupo de Tecnología del Habla
  • Departamento: Ingeniería Electrónica