Voice Quality Modelling for Expressive Speech Synthesis
Joint Authors
Monzo, Carlos
Iriondo, Ignasi
Socoró, Joan Claudi
Source
Issue
Vol. 2014, Issue 2014 (31 Dec. 2014), pp.1-12, 12 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2014-01-22
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
12
Main Subjects
Medicine
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
This paper presents the perceptual experiments that were carried out in order to validate the methodology of transforming expressive speech styles using voice quality (VoQ) parameters modelling, along with the well-known prosody (F0, duration, and energy), from a neutral style into a number of expressive ones.
The main goal was to validate the usefulness of VoQ in the enhancement of expressive synthetic speech in terms of speech quality and style identification.
A harmonic plus noise model (HNM) was used to modify VoQ and prosodic parameters that were extracted from an expressive speech corpus.
Perception test results indicated the improvement of obtained expressive speech styles using VoQ modelling along with prosodic characteristics.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Monzo, Carlos& Iriondo, Ignasi& Socoró, Joan Claudi. 2014. Voice Quality Modelling for Expressive Speech Synthesis. The Scientific World Journal،Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-12.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Monzo, Carlos…[et al.]. Voice Quality Modelling for Expressive Speech Synthesis. The Scientific World Journal No. 2014 (2014), pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1050406
American Medical Association (AMA)
Monzo, Carlos& Iriondo, Ignasi& Socoró, Joan Claudi. Voice Quality Modelling for Expressive Speech Synthesis. The Scientific World Journal. 2014. Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1050406
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1050406