TY - CONF
T1 - A database design for a concatenative speech synthesis system for the disabled
AU - Iida, Akemi
AU - Campbell, Nick
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The authors would like to express their sincere appreciation to Mr. Shinnichi Yamaguchi of Fukuoka-pref., Japan. The authors also would like to thank Prof. Kimitoshi Fukudome, Kyushuu Institute of Design, Prof. Satoshi Imaizumi and Prof. Keikichi Hirose of University of Tokyo, Mr. Eiji Mitsuya and Mr. Masahiro Nishimura of ATR for their kind cooperation.
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PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - This paper reports on our research on designing a speech corpora in Japanese for a concatenative speech synthesis system that is to be used for a specific purpose. For this work, the purpose was set to assist communication for non-vocal people. Four kinds of source database for synthesis were developed by combining different speech corpora created from read speech of an Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) patient who was anticipating the imminent loss of his voice. This work confirmed that the recording of a minimum set of phonetically balanced sentences (129 sentences) was insufficient for concatenative speech synthesis and that a combination of these and a recording of well-read continuous-text material produced more natural sounding synthesized speech. A communication aid was developed using a concatenated speech synthesis with the database created in this work.
AB - This paper reports on our research on designing a speech corpora in Japanese for a concatenative speech synthesis system that is to be used for a specific purpose. For this work, the purpose was set to assist communication for non-vocal people. Four kinds of source database for synthesis were developed by combining different speech corpora created from read speech of an Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) patient who was anticipating the imminent loss of his voice. This work confirmed that the recording of a minimum set of phonetically balanced sentences (129 sentences) was insufficient for concatenative speech synthesis and that a combination of these and a recording of well-read continuous-text material produced more natural sounding synthesized speech. A communication aid was developed using a concatenated speech synthesis with the database created in this work.
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T2 - 4th ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2001
Y2 - 29 August 2001 through 1 September 2001
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