Title:	Towards linguistic naturalness of synthetic speech
Other Titles:	Zvyšování lingvistické přirozenosti syntetické řeči
Authors:	Matoušek, Jindřich Skarnitzl, Radek Tihelka, Daniel Machač, Pavel
Citation:	MATOUŠEK, Jindřich; SKARNITZL, Radek; TIHELKA, Daniel; MACHAČ, Pavel. Towards linguistic naturalness of synthetic speech. In: Proceedings of the world congress on engineering and computer science 2011: 19 - 21, 2011 October, San Francisco, USA. Hong Kong: Newswood Limited, 2011, p. 561-566. ISBN 978-988-18210-9-6.
Issue Date:	2011
Publisher:	Newswood Limited
Document type:	článek article
URI:	http://www.kky.zcu.cz/cs/publications/MatousekJ_2011_TowardsLinguistic http://hdl.handle.net/11025/17014
ISBN:	978-988-18210-9-6
Keywords:	parazitní­ zvuk řeči;preglotalizace;lingvistická přirozenost;syntéza řeči;výběr jednotky
Keywords in different language:	parasitic speech sound;preglottalization;linguistic naturalness;speech synthesis;unit selection
Abstract in different language:	This paper presents another step towards linguistic naturalness of synthetic Czech. The main goal of this study is to avoid unintended occurrences of parasitic speech sounds (namely preglottalization) in synthesised speech. Firstly, procedures for both automatic detection and segmentation of these sounds in source speech recordings are presented. Then, two speech synthesis scenarios are proposed and employed to synthesise speech without preglottalization. Both scenarios succeeded in suppressing intrusiveness of preglottalization with the scenario of penalisation of preglottalization during unit selection being evaluated as the better one.
Rights:	© Jindřich Matoušek - Radek Skarnitzl - Daniel Tihelka - Pavel Machač
Appears in Collections:	Články / Articles (NTIS) Články / Articles (KIV)

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