A hybrid method oriented to concatenative text-to-speech synthesis

Ignasi Iriondo; Francesc Alías; Javier Sanchis; Javier Melenchón

A hybrid method oriented to concatenative text-to-speech synthesis

Ignasi Iriondo
, Francesc Alías
, Javier Sanchis
, Javier Melenchón

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Abstract

In this paper we present a speech synthesis method for diphonebased text-to-speech systems. Its main goal is to achieve prosodic modifications that result in more natural-sounding synthetic speech. This improvement is especially useful for emotional speech synthesis, which requires high-quality prosodic modification. We present a hybrid method based on TD-PSOLA and the harmonic plus noise model, which incorporates a novel method to jointly modify pitch and time-scale. Preliminary results show an improvement in the synthetic speech quality when high pitch modification is required.

Original language	English
Pages	2953-2956
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - 2003
Event	8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 2003 - Geneva, Switzerland Duration: 1 Sept 2003 → 4 Sept 2003

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Conference	8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 2003
Country/Territory	Switzerland
City	Geneva
Period	1/09/03 → 4/09/03

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