EP1860645A3 - Automatic segmentation in speech synthesis - Google Patents

Automatic segmentation in speech synthesis Download PDF

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EP1860645A3
EP1860645A3 EP07116265A EP07116265A EP1860645A3 EP 1860645 A3 EP1860645 A3 EP 1860645A3 EP 07116265 A EP07116265 A EP 07116265A EP 07116265 A EP07116265 A EP 07116265A EP 1860645 A3 EP1860645 A3 EP 1860645A3
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phone
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speech synthesis
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Alistair D. Conkie
Yeon-Jun Kim
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10L—SPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING
    • G10L13/00—Speech synthesis; Text to speech systems
    • G10L13/06—Elementary speech units used in speech synthesisers; Concatenation rules

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Abstract

In a system having a speech inventory that includes phone labels that are concatenated to form synthetic speech, a method for segmenting the phone labels comprises:
performing an alignment on a trained set of HMMs to produce phone labels that are segmented, wherein each phone label has a spectral boundary; and
performing spectral boundary correction on the phone labels, wherein spectral boundary correction re-aligns each spectral boundary using bending points of spectral transitions,

wherein the phone labels having spectral boundary correction are used for speech synthesis.
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EP1035537A2 (en) * 1999-03-09 2000-09-13 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Identification of unit overlap regions for concatenative speech synthesis system

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EP1035537A2 (en) * 1999-03-09 2000-09-13 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Identification of unit overlap regions for concatenative speech synthesis system

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BRUGNARA F ET AL: "AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION AND LABELING OF SPEECH BASED ON HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS", SPEECH COMMUNICATION, ELSEVIER SCIENCE PUBLISHERS, AMSTERDAM, NL, vol. 12, no. 4, 1 August 1993 (1993-08-01), pages 357 - 370, XP000393652, ISSN: 0167-6393 *
HON H ET AL: "Automatic generation of synthesis units for trainable text-to-speech systems", ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, 1998. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1998 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SEATTLE, WA, USA 12-15 MAY 1998, NEW YORK, NY, USA,IEEE, US, 12 May 1998 (1998-05-12), pages 293 - 296, XP010279159, ISBN: 0-7803-4428-6 *
TOLEDANO D T: "Neural network boundary refining for automatic speech segmentation", 2000 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL, vol. 6, 5 June 2000 (2000-06-05), pages 3438 - 3441, XP010505636 *

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