Communication aid for non-vocal people using corpus-based concatenative speech synthesis

Akemi Iida; Yosuke Sakurada; Nick Campbell; Michiaki Yasumura

Communication aid for non-vocal people using corpus-based concatenative speech synthesis

Akemi Iida, Yosuke Sakurada, Nick Campbell, Michiaki Yasumura

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Abstract

This paper reports on the development of Chatako-AID, a communication aid for non-vocal people using corpus-based cocatenative speech synthesis by creating a speech corpus especially designed for such use. The concept of Chatako-AID; synthesis with the user’s voice, which makes use of precomposed texts, is highly appreciated by the target user. This confirms that the recording of a minimum set of phonetically balanced sentences is insufficient for speech synthesis in the proposed method and that a combination of the above recording and a recording of well-read continuous-text material produces more natural sounded synthesised speech.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology
Editors	Paul Dalsgaard, Borge Lindberg, Henrik Benner, Zheng-Hua Tan
Publisher	International Speech Communication Association
Pages	2409-2412
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	8790834100, 9788790834104
Publication status	Published - 2001
Externally published	Yes
Event	7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology - Scandinavia, EUROSPEECH 2001 - Aalborg, Denmark Duration: 2001 Sept 3 → 2001 Sept 7

Publication series

Name	EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology
Volume	2001-September

Conference

Conference	7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology - Scandinavia, EUROSPEECH 2001
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Aalborg
Period	01/9/3 → 01/9/7

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Science Applications
Software
Communication
Linguistics and Language

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Iida, A., Sakurada, Y., Campbell, N., & Yasumura, M. (2001). Communication aid for non-vocal people using corpus-based concatenative speech synthesis. In P. Dalsgaard, B. Lindberg, H. Benner, & Z-H. Tan (Eds.), EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (pp. 2409-2412). (EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology; Vol. 2001-September). International Speech Communication Association.

Communication aid for non-vocal people using corpus-based concatenative speech synthesis. / Iida, Akemi; Sakurada, Yosuke; Campbell, Nick et al.
EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology. ed. / Paul Dalsgaard; Borge Lindberg; Henrik Benner; Zheng-Hua Tan. International Speech Communication Association, 2001. p. 2409-2412 (EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology; Vol. 2001-September).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Iida, A, Sakurada, Y, Campbell, N & Yasumura, M 2001, Communication aid for non-vocal people using corpus-based concatenative speech synthesis. in P Dalsgaard, B Lindberg, H Benner & Z-H Tan (eds), EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology. EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, vol. 2001-September, International Speech Communication Association, pp. 2409-2412, 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology - Scandinavia, EUROSPEECH 2001, Aalborg, Denmark, 01/9/3.

Iida A, Sakurada Y, Campbell N, Yasumura M. Communication aid for non-vocal people using corpus-based concatenative speech synthesis. In Dalsgaard P, Lindberg B, Benner H, Tan Z-H, editors, EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology. International Speech Communication Association. 2001. p. 2409-2412. (EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology).

Iida, Akemi ; Sakurada, Yosuke ; Campbell, Nick et al. / Communication aid for non-vocal people using corpus-based concatenative speech synthesis. EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology. editor / Paul Dalsgaard ; Borge Lindberg ; Henrik Benner ; Zheng-Hua Tan. International Speech Communication Association, 2001. pp. 2409-2412 (EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology).

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