Memorias de investigación
Ponencias en congresos:
Development of a Genre-Dependent TTS System with Cross-Speaker Speaking-Style Transplantation
Año:2014
Áreas de investigación
  • Tecnología electrónica y de las comunicaciones,
  • Ingeniería eléctrica, electrónica y automática
Datos
Descripción
One of the biggest challenges in speech synthesis is the production of contextually-appropriate naturally sounding synthetic voices. This means that a Text-To-Speech system must be able to analyze a text beyond the sentence limits in order to select, or even modulate, the speaking style according to a broader context. Our current architecture is based on a two-step approach: text genre identification and speaking style synthesis according to the detected discourse genre. For the final implementation, a set of four genres and their corresponding speaking styles were considered: broadcast news, live sport commentaries, interviews and political speeches. In the final TTS evaluation, the four speaking styles were transplanted to the neutral voices of other speakers not included in the training database. When the transplanted styles were compared to the neutral voices, transplantation was significantly preferred and the similarity to the target speaker was as high as 78%.
Internacional
Si
Nombre congreso
2nd International Workshop on Speech, Language and Audio in Multimedia (SLAM2014)
Tipo de participación
960
Lugar del congreso
Penang, Malaysia
Revisores
Si
ISBN o ISSN
978-967-394-199-5
DOI
Fecha inicio congreso
11/09/2014
Fecha fin congreso
12/09/2014
Desde la página
39
Hasta la página
42
Título de las actas
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Speech, Language and Audio in Multimedia
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Participantes
  • Autor: Jaime Lorenzo Trueba UPM
  • Autor: Julian David Echeverry Correa UPM
  • Autor: Roberto Barra Chicote UPM
  • Autor: Javier Ferreiros Lopez UPM
  • Autor: Ascensión Gallardo Antolín Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M)
  • Autor: Junichi Yamagishi Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR), University of Edinburgh / National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokio
  • Autor: Simon King Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR), University of Edinburgh
  • 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