Automatic Duration Weighting in Thai Unit-selection Speech Synthesis

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作者：
Saychum, S. [1 ]
Rugchatjaroen, A. [1 ]
Thatphithakkul, N. [1 ]
Wutiwiwatchai, C. [1 ]
Thangthai, A. [1 ]
机构：
[1] Natl Elect & Comp Technol Ctr, Human Language Technol Lab, Pathum Thani, Thailand
来源：
ECTI-CON 2008: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2008 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING/ELECTRONICS, COMPUTER, TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, VOLS 1 AND 2 | 2008年
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D O I：
10.1109/ECTICON.2008.4600492
中图分类号：
TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号：
0812 ;
摘要：
This paper presents the naturalness improvement in Thai unit-selection text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) by automatic weighting of targeted cost. An intuition of the proposed method is that the sensitivity of human perception might be varied to different phonemic and prosodic units. In this work, the unit-selection targeted-cost of each phoneme unit is weighted differently according to its duration statistic and voicing characteristic. Two automatic weighting algorithms, based on the statistical mean and standard deviation of phoneme duration, are comparatively evaluated. A subjective test shows a 0.46 mean-opinion-score improvement over the baseline speech synthesized without targeted-cost weighting.
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页码：549 / 552
页数：4
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