Title :
Mixed distance measures for synthetic speech evaluation
Author :
Polish, Nathaniel
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA
Abstract :
A set of speech quality distance measures has been developed. These measures are called mixed distance measures because they apply different criteria to different classes of voicing. The results of the measures are combined in what might be termed a knowledge-based approach. These measures operate in both time and frequency domains and exploit particular characteristics of the class of voicing (voiced, fricative, stop) that is examined by the measure. These measures provide a method for speech quality assessment that can be used, for example, to select and fine-tune concatenation-based synthesizer element sets
Keywords :
knowledge engineering; speech intelligibility; speech synthesis; concatenation-based synthesizer; fricative; knowledge-based approach; mixed distance measures; speech quality; speech synthesis; stop; synthetic speech; voiced; voicing; Computer science; Distortion measurement; Frequency measurement; Humans; Particle measurements; Position measurement; Speech analysis; Speech synthesis; Synthesizers; Time measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1991. ICASSP-91., 1991 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Toronto, Ont.
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0003-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.1991.150389
