Application of expressive speech in TTS system with cepstral description

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5042 LNAI, Issue , 2008, Pages 200-212

  Přibil, Jiří ^a   Přibilová, Anna ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHOTONICS AND ELECTRONICS   (Czech Republic)

^b SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Expressive speech; Speech analysis and synthesis; Text to speech system

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EQUIPMENT; APPLICATIONS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

BLIND PEOPLES; CEPSTRAL; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH SYNTHESES; HUMAN EMOTIONS; PROSODIC PARAMETERS; SPEAKING STYLES; SPECIAL APPLICATIONS; SPECTRAL ENVELOPES; SPECTRAL FLATNESSES; SPEECH ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM; TTS SYSTEMS;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 58349112115     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-70872-8_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (16)

1. Přibilová, A., Přibil, J.: Non-linear Frequency Scale Mapping for Voice Conversion in Text-to-Speech System with Cepstral Description. Speech Communication 48, 1691-1703 (2006)
2. Iida, A., Campbell, N., Higuchi, F., Yasumura, M.: A Corpus-Based Speech Synthesis System with Emotion. Speech Communication 40, 161-187 (2003)
3. Navas, E., Hernáez, I., Luengo, I.: An Objective and Subjective Study of the Role of Semantics and Prosodie Features in Building Corpora for Emotional TTS. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing 14, 1117-1127 (2006)
4. Tao, J., Kang, Y., Li, A.: Prosody Conversion from Neutral Speech to Emotional Speech. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing 14, 1145-1154 (2006)
5. Přibil, J., Přibilová, A.: Emotional Style Conversion in the TTS System with Cepstral Description. In: Esposito, A., Faundez-Zanuy, M., Keller, E., Marinaro, M. (eds.) COST Action 2102. LNCS (LNAI), vol. 4775, pp. 65-73. Springer, Heidelberg (2007)
6. House, D., Bell, L., Gustafson, K., Johansson, L.: Child-Directed Speech Synthesis: Evaluation of Prosodic Variation for an Educational Computer Program. In: Proceedings of Eurospeech, Budapest, pp. 1843-1846 (1999)
7. Theune, M., Meijs, K., Heylen, D., Ordelman, R.: Generating Expressive Speech for Storytelling Applications. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing 14, 1137-1144 (2006)
8. Přibil, J., Přibilová, A.: Voicing Transition Frequency Determination for Harmonic Speech Model. In: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing, Budapest, pp. 25-28 (2006)
9. Vích, R.: Cepstral Speech Model, Padé Approximation, Excitation, and Gain Matching in Cepstral Speech Synthesis. In: Proceedings of the 15th Biennial International EURASIP Conference Biosignal, Brno, pp. 77-82 (2000)
10. Gray, A.H., Markel, J.D.: A Spectral-Flatness Measure for Studying the Autocorrelation Method of Linear Prediction of Speech Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing ASSP-22, 207-217 (1974)
11. Esposito, A., Stejskal, V., Smékal, Z., Bourbakis, N.: The Significance of Empty Speech Pauses: Cognitive and Algorithmic Issues. In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Brain Vision and Artificial Intelligence, Naples, pp. 542-554 (2007)
12. Ito, T., Takeda, K., Itakura, F.: Analysis and Recognition of Whispered Speech. Speech Communication 45, 139-152 (2005)
13. Přibil, J., Madlová, A.: Two Synthesis Methods Based on Cepstral Parameterization. Radioengineering 11(2), 35-39 (2002)
14. Unser, M.: Splines. A Perfect Fit for Signal and Image Processing. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 16, 22-38 (1999)
15. Akande, O.O., Murphy, P.J.: Estimation of the Vocal Tract Transfer Function with Application to Glottal Wave Analysis. Speech Communication 46, 15-36 (2005)
16. Přibil, J., Přibilová, A.: Distributed Listening Test Program for Synthetic Speech Evaluation. In: Proceedings of the 34 Jahrestagung für Akustik DAGA 2008, Dresden (to be published, 2008)