Quality Of Synthetic Speech

Author : Florian Hinterleitner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811037345
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quality of Synthetic Speech written by Florian Hinterleitner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews research towards perceptual quality dimensions of synthetic speech, compares these findings with the state of the art, and derives a set of five universal perceptual quality dimensions for TTS signals. They are: (i) naturalness of voice, (ii) prosodic quality, (iii) fluency and intelligibility, (iv) absence of disturbances, and (v) calmness. Moreover, a test protocol for the efficient indentification of those dimensions in a listening test is introduced. Furthermore, several factors influencing these dimensions are examined. In addition, different techniques for the instrumental quality assessment of TTS signals are introduced, reviewed and tested. Finally, the requirements for the integration of an instrumental quality measure into a concatenative TTS system are examined.

Author : Josephus Hubertus Eggen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the quality of synthetic speech written by Josephus Hubertus Eggen and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : E. Keller
Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 9780471499855
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Improvements in Speech Synthesis written by E. Keller and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2001-11-28 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naturalness in synthetic speech is one of the most intractable problems in information technology today. Although speech synthesis systems have improved considerably over the last 20 years, they rarely sound entirely like human speakers. Why is this so, and what can be done about it? * Prosodic processing must be rendered more varied and more appropriate to the speech situation * Timing, melodic control and the relationships between the various prosodic parameters need increased attention * Signal processing systems must be developed and perfected that are capable of generating more than just one voice from a database * A better understanding must be achieved of what distinguishes one voice from another, and of how speech styles differ between simply reading aloud numbers and sentences and their use in interactive speech * New evaluation methodologies should be developed to provide objective and subjective measurements of the intelligibility of the synthetic speech and the cognitive load imposed upon the listener by impoverished stimuli * Adequate text markup systems must be proposed and tested with multiple languages in real-world situations * Further research is required to integrate speech synthesis systems into larger natural-language processing systems Improvements in Speech Synthesis presents the latest research in the above areas. Contributors include speech synthesis specialists from 16 countries, with experience in the development of systems for 12 European languages. This volume emerges from a four-year European COST project focussed on "The Naturalness of Synthetic Speech", and will be a valuable text for everyone involved in speech synthesis.

Author : Ute Jekosch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540240952
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voice and Speech Quality Perception written by Ute Jekosch and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-08-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foundations of Voice and Speech Quality Perception starts out with the fundamental question of: "How do listeners perceive voice and speech quality and how can these processes be modeled?" Any quantitative answers require measurements. This is natural for physical quantities but harder to imagine for perceptual measurands. This book approaches the problem by actually identifying major perceptual dimensions of voice and speech quality perception, defining units wherever possible and offering paradigms to position these dimensions into a structural skeleton of perceptual speech and voice quality. The emphasis is placed on voice and speech quality assessment of systems in artificial scenarios. Many scientific fields are involved. This book bridges the gap between two quite diverse fields, engineering and humanities, and establishes the new research area of Voice and Speech Quality Perception.

Author : Haifeng Li
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811527563
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Sound and Music Technology (CSMT) written by Haifeng Li and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-21 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents selected papers that have been accepted at the seventh Conference on Sound and Music Technology (CSMT) in December 2019, held in Harbin, Hei Long Jiang, China. CSMT is a domestic conference focusing on audio processing and understanding with bias on music and acoustic signals. The primary aim of the conference is to promote the collaboration between art society and technical society in China. The organisers of CSMT hope the conference can serve as a platform for interdisciplinary research. In this proceeding, the paper included covers a wide range topic from speech, signal processing and music understanding, which demonstrates the target of CSMT merging arts and science research together.

Author : Sheila Bridges Freeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children's Attitudes Toward Synthesized Speech Varying in Quality written by Sheila Bridges Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Amita Dev
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000472906
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Artificial Intelligence and Speech Technology written by Amita Dev and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Speech Technology (AIST2020) was organized by Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women, Delhi, India on November 19–20, 2020. AIST2020 is dedicated to cutting-edge research that addresses the scientific needs of academic researchers and industrial professionals to explore new horizons of knowledge related to Artificial Intelligence and Speech Technologies. AIST2020 includes high-quality paper presentation sessions revealing the latest research findings, and engaging participant discussions. The main focus is on novel contributions which would open new opportunities for providing better and low-cost solutions for the betterment of society. These include the use of new AI-based approaches like Deep Learning, CNN, RNN, GAN, and others in various Speech related issues like speech synthesis, speech recognition, etc.

Author : Kamil Ekštein
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303140498X
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Text, Speech, and Dialogue written by Kamil Ekštein and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, TSD 2023, held in Pilsen, Czech Republic, during September 4–6, 2023. The 31 full papers presented together with the abstracts of 3 keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. The conference attracts researchers not only from Central and Eastern Europe but also from other parts of the world. One of its goals has always been bringing together NLP researchers with various interests from different parts of the world and promoting their cooperation. One of the ambitions of the conference is, not only to deal with dialogue systems but also to improve dialogue among researchers in areas of NLP, i.e., among the “text” and the “speech” and the “dialogue” people.

Author : Keikichi Hirose
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3662452588
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speech Prosody in Speech Synthesis: Modeling and generation of prosody for high quality and flexible speech synthesis written by Keikichi Hirose and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume addresses issues concerning prosody generation in speech synthesis, including prosody modeling, how we can convey para- and non-linguistic information in speech synthesis, and prosody control in speech synthesis (including prosody conversions). A high level of quality has already been achieved in speech synthesis by using selection-based methods with segments of human speech. Although the method enables synthetic speech with various voice qualities and speaking styles, it requires large speech corpora with targeted quality and style. Accordingly, speech conversion techniques are now of growing interest among researchers. HMM/GMM-based methods are widely used, but entail several major problems when viewed from the prosody perspective; prosodic features cover a wider time span than segmental features and their frame-by-frame processing is not always appropriate. The book offers a good overview of state-of-the-art studies on prosody in speech synthesis.

Author : Laila Dybkjær
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402058158
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evaluation of Text and Speech Systems written by Laila Dybkjær and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its nine chapters, this book provides an overview of the state-of-the-art and best practice in several sub-fields of evaluation of text and speech systems and components. The evaluation aspects covered include speech and speaker recognition, speech synthesis, animated talking agents, part-of-speech tagging, parsing, and natural language software like machine translation, information retrieval, question answering, spoken dialogue systems, data resources, and annotation schemes. With its broad coverage and original contributions this book is unique in the field of evaluation of speech and language technology. This book is of particular relevance to advanced undergraduate students, PhD students, academic and industrial researchers, and practitioners.