Memorias de investigación
Ponencias en congresos:
Continuous Expressive Speaking Styles Synthesis based on CVSM and MR-HMM
Año:2016
Áreas de investigación
  • Tecnología electrónica y de las comunicaciones,
  • Ingeniería eléctrica, electrónica y automática
Datos
Descripción
This paper introduces a continuous system capable of automatically producing the most adequate speaking style to synthesize a desired target text. This is done thanks to a joint modeling of the acoustic and lexical parameters of the speaker models by adapting the CVSM projection of the training texts using MR-HMM techniques. As such, we consider that as long as sufficient variety in the training data is available, we should be able to model a continuous lexical space into a continuous acoustic space. The proposed continuous automatic text to speech system was evaluated by means of a perceptual evaluation in order to compare them with traditional approaches to the task. The system proved to be capable of conveying the correct expressiveness (average adequacy of 3.6) with an expressive strength comparable to oracle traditional expressive speech synthesis (average of 3.6) although with a drop in speech quality mainly due to the semi-continuous nature of the data (average quality of 2.9). This means that the proposed system is capable of improving traditional neutral systems without requiring any additional user interaction.
Internacional
Si
Nombre congreso
COLING 2016, The 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Tipo de participación
960
Lugar del congreso
Osaka, Japan
Revisores
Si
ISBN o ISSN
9781510833388
DOI
Fecha inicio congreso
11/12/2016
Fecha fin congreso
16/12/2016
Desde la página
369
Hasta la página
376
Título de las actas
Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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Participantes
  • Autor: Jaime Lorenzo Trueba UPM
  • Autor: Roberto Barra Chicote UPM
  • Autor: Ascensión Gallardo Antolín Universidad Carlos III, Madrid
  • Autor: Junichi Yamagishi Associate Professor, Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division, NII Tokio
  • 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
  • Centro o Instituto I+D+i: Centro de I+d+i en Procesado de la Información y Telecomunicaciones
  • Departamento: Ingeniería Electrónica