In concatenative text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis systems unit selection aims to reduce the number of concatenation points in the synthesized speech and make ...
A Viterbi-style algorithm dynamically selects the most suitable database units from a large speech database by considering concatenation and target costs.
Organization of Speech Units in the Context Tree Each tree node in the phoneme context tree holds acoustic, prosodic and phonetic feature vectors associated ...
This research considers synthesis of completely new utterances from non-uniform units, whereby the most appropriate units, according to acoustic and phonetic ...
In concatenative text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis systems unit selection aims to reduce the number of concatenation points in the synthesized speech and make ...
Bibliographic details on Unit selection in concatenative TTS synthesis systems based on mel filter bank amplitudes and phonetic context.
This paper proposes a new approach to train the weight parameters associated with the cost functions used for unit selection in concatenative speech synthesis.
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Cox, Ben P. Milner, “Unit selection in concatenative TTS synthesis systems based on mel filter bank amplitudes and phonetic context”, EUROSPEECH, pp. 273–276, ...
Jan 18, 2017 · • no-filter is the reference system without filters (all units are considered based on their label);. • reverted-filter is the cost function ...
Unit Selection in Concatenative TTS Synthesis. Systems Based on Mel Filter Bank Amplitudes and Pho- netic Context. In 8th European Conference on Speech.