Exploring the Naturalness of Several German High-Quality-Text-to-Speech Systems

6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 1859-1862

  Mixdorff, Hansjörg ^a   Mehnert, Dieter ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

perceptual evaluation; prosody; TTS

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

F0 CONTOURS; HIGH QUALITY; NATURAL SPEECH; PERCEPTUAL EVALUATION; PROSODY; SEGMENT DURATION; TEXT TO SPEECH; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM; TTS; TTS SYSTEMS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 85119196082     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (5)

1. Mixdorff.H.. Fujisaki. H. (1995): A Scheme for a Model-based Synthesis by Rule of F0 Contours of German Utterances. Proceedings of the '95 Eurospeech. Madrid. Spanien. Bd. 3. pp. 1823-1826.
2. Mixdorff.H. (1998): Intonation Patterns of German - Quantitative Analysis and Synthesis of F0 Contours. Ph.D. thesis. TU Dresden. Dresden. Germany.
3. Jokisch. O.. Pescheck. M. (1998): Neuronale Prosodiegenerierung - Einfluß der Trainingsdaten. In Fortschritte der Akustik 1998. Zürich. Switzerland. pp.352-353.
4. Mixdorff.H.. Mehnert. D. (1998): Perceptual Evaluation of Three Different Approaches for Generating F0 contours in TTS. In Fortschritte der Akustik 1998. Zürich. Switzerland. pp. 398-399.
5. Mixdorff, H., Mehnert, D. and Hirschfeld, D. (1999): Comparing the Naturalness of Several Approaches for Generating F0 contours in German TTS Systems. In the Proceedings of the 137th ASA/25th DAGA-Meeting, Berlin.