Dec 6, 2013 - rapidly changing databases an TTS system driven from a text database has many advantages. â Proof-Readin
and understand the degree of coverage of the input domain of a text-to-speech system ..... ple, 888 triphone types occur not at all in the name corpus, but 11-100 times in .... TTS input domain can be covered by an affordable training corpus.
e sis. 2. Speech Synthesis Process. Definition: Speech synthesis is the artificial
production of human speech ... OOV or novel forms. – Abbreviations ... number (
ordinal/cardinal/year) – 1996 cattle vs year ... 57 ST E/1st & 2nd Ave Huge drmn
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Meelis Mihkla¹, Arvo Eek², Einar Meister². ¹Institute of Estonian Language ... part of the first phone and ends in the quasi-stationary part of the following one.
serves as the text-analysis module of the multilingual Bell Labs. TTS system. .... appropriate. Call this lexical-to-MMA transducerLword; such a trans- ducer can be ..... nical Report P92â00149, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, (1992). [8] Lauri ..
equally divided between the natural language processing (NLP) components ... chapter contains two tables that outline the tasks and costs involved in each NLP.
Transformation) stylesheet (Harold, 1999). ... types, such as cardinal and ordinal numbers, currency ... While the expansion of cardinal numbers is straight-.
diacritics. Of course, syntactic diacritics could be supplied manually. Arabic language has only six syllable types (CV, CVC,. CVV, CVVC, CVCC and CVVCC).
Malayalam text-to-speech system is implemented in Java multimedia framework (
JMF) and runs on both in Windows and. Linux platforms. The proposed system ...
5 â The prosody for âMama vine azi la mineâ Fig. 6 â The prosody for âMama vine azi la mineâ. (My mother comes today to me). (My mother comes today to me).
data, and given adequate initial conditions, CRF taggers can achieve a very high ... rectly maximize the conditional probability Pr (P|W) over all pos- sible POS ...
Service (have a telephone conversation with speech or hearing impaired persons thanks to ad hoc ... Relay Service is ano
paper, harmonic and non-harmonic (HNH) modeling [17] is applied for speech analysis and synthesis. ..... using a laptop with a single-core processor at a clock speed of 1.6 GHz. ..... He was a senior researcher at Samsung Advanced Institute.
In this paper, we propose a novel method for Text-To-Speech (TTS) conversion in
Tamil language. It involves two phases, namely, the offline phase and the ...
Segment-wise Representation with a Norm Constraint. Stas Tiomkin, David ..... solution for the segment-wise cost function, (13), is derived as in. (9): copt,sw = (Ë.
principal pronunciation lexicon. The name- pronunciation lexicon needn't be very large, since the pronunciation of many names can be produced by analogy.
already available speech codec in the mobile and read a. SMS aloud to the listener, when .... GSM-EFR and GSM-AMR codecs are based on code-excited linear ...
Oct 25, 2006 - Dept. of Speech Language Pathology. Northeastern University ... The Lombard effect is a change to speech produced in noise. [1, 2, 3]. Studies ...
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560012, India. ... modeling of segmental (phoneme) duration for Hindi. .... as in a stress language like English.
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enable the evaluation, the Mandarin TTS system is separated into three ... carrying out the prosodic modifications introduce audible distortions to the output speech. ..... System (CPS) is the standard romanization scheme used. ... text processing mo
Oct 28, 2009 - abilities in order to build an adaptive text-to-speech synthesizer ... it is not uncommon to see a 9 year old girl using an adult male voice or for ...
Department of Electrical Engg, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, INDIA. 1. Introduction. In this paper, we propose a novel method for Text-To-Speech (TTS) conversion in Tamil .... Recording took place in a noise free room using Shure SM
tuning stages, while 100 utterances were reserved as a validation set in order .... [32], cross-lingual speaker adaptati
Text To Speech Synthesis • A system which takes as input a sequence of words and converts them to human speech • Do you think TTS is a solved problem?
Applications
Applications • For applications involving access to very large or rapidly changing databases an TTS system driven from a text database has many advantages – Proof-Reading of documents – Speaking and Reading aids for the disabled – Speech output for intelligent machines
Functional outline of a TTS system
Functional outline of a TTS system
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Functional outline of a TTS system
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Symbols to Standard Form A preprocessor is used to convert symbol strings such as $3.17B to text
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Functional outline of a TTS system Phonetic Transcription For each word a phonetic transcription is computed. A morpheme dictionary is used. If the word is not found in dictionary letter to sound rules are used
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Parsing To aid the selection of prosody correlates, a phrase- level parsing is performed. POS tagging is done to provide input for the parser
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Semantic Analysis Only those semantic effects due to particular lexical items such as negatives are found
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Functional outline of a TTS system
Functional outline of a TTS system
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Phonetic Targets Phonetic Description
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Timing Prepausal Lengthening, pause duration and polysyllabic shortening are determined plus the basic duration of each segment
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Functional outline of a TTS system Fundamental Frequency Pitch rises on stressed syllables, continuation rises to signal continued throughout and a number of segmental effects are determined
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Functional outline of a TTS system
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Phonetic Targets Phonetic Target parameters are determined for each phonetic segment utilizing a context window
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Continuation Smoothing The target values are smoothed to get a full set of parameters every frame
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Functional outline of a TTS system
Parameter Conversion The phonetic parameters must be converted to filter coefficients
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Functional outline of a TTS system
Waveform Generation The synthesizer utilizes coefficients to generate speech waveform
the the
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Functional outline of a TTS system
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Functional outline of a TTS system
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Synthesis Techniques
Synthesis Techniques
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Articulatory Synthesis
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Formant Synthesis
LP Synthesis
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Synthesis Techniques Attempts to model the human speech production system Synthesis Techniques
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LP Synthesis
Concatenation Synthesis
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Synthesis Techniques
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Articulatory Synthesis
Signal Model
Formant Synthesis
LP Synthesis
Concatenation Synthesis
Synthesis Techniques Attempts to model the resulting speech signal Synthesis Techniques
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LP Synthesis
Concatenation Synthesis
Synthesis Techniques
Synthesis Techniques
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Articulatory Synthesis
Signal Model
Formant Synthesis
LP Synthesis
Concatenation Synthesis
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Synthesis Techniques
The shape of the vocal tract defined by articulators is usually converted toSystem a transfer function Model
Articulatory Synthesis
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LP Synthesis
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Synthesis Techniques
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LP Synthesis
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Use an excitation signal to excite a digital filter defined by formants (separation of source and vocalSignal tract Model ) System Model
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Formant Synthesis
LP Synthesis
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Synthesis Techniques
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LP Synthesis
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Synthesis Techniques
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Articulatory Synthesis
Use an excitation signal to excite a digital filter defined by LPC (separation of source and vocal tract ) Signal Model
Formant Synthesis
LP Synthesis
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Synthesis Techniques
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Articulatory Synthesis
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Articulatory Synthesis
Concatenates appropriate synthesis units to construct the required speech Signal Processing must be used for Signal Model prosody
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Synthesis Techniques
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TTS Demo • http://www.ivona.com/us/
Singing Voice Synthesis
Singing Voice Synthesis
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Singing Speech
Singing Voice Synthesis
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Singing Speech Prosody
Score Editor
Musical notes
Japanese Commercial SVS system • Vocaloid • ‘Supercell’ was created with Vocaloid and it became a hit album/band in 2009 with more than 100,000 cumulative sales
