Perception-guided and phonetic clustering weight tuning based on diphone pairs for unit selection TTS

Francesc Alías; Xavier Llorà; Ignasi Iriondo; Xavier Sevillano; Llús Formiga; Joan Claudi Socoró

Perception-guided and phonetic clustering weight tuning based on diphone pairs for unit selection TTS

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Abstract

The quality of corpus based text-to-speech systems depends on the accuracy of the unit selection process, which relies on the values of the weights of the cost function. This paper is focused on defining a new framework for the tuning of these weights. We propose a technique for taking into account the subjective perception of speech in the selection process by means of Interactive Genetic Algorithms. Moreover, we introduce a CART-based method for unit clustering. Both techniques are applied to weight tuning based on diphone pairs. The conducted experiments analyze the feasibility of both proposals separately.

Original language	English
Pages	1221-1224
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - 2004
Event	8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004 - Jeju, Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of Duration: 4 Oct 2004 → 8 Oct 2004

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Conference	8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Jeju, Jeju Island
Period	4/10/04 → 8/10/04

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2004. 1221-1224 Paper presented at 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004, Jeju, Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of.

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Perception-guided and phonetic clustering weight tuning based on diphone pairs for unit selection TTS

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