Title :
Synthesis of filled pauses based on a disfluent speech model
Author :
Adell, Jordi ; Bonafonte, Antonio ; Escudero, David
Author_Institution :
TALP Res. Center, Univ. Politcnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain
Abstract :
In the present paper we present a new approach to the synthesis of filled pauses. The problem is tackled from the point of view of disfluent speech synthesis. Based on the synthetic disfluent speech model, we analyse the features that describe filled pauses and propose a model to predict them. The model was implemented and perceptually evaluated with successful results.
Keywords :
speech synthesis; disfluent speech model; filled pauses synthesis; speech synthesis; Broadcasting; Local government; Predictive models; Psychology; Rhythm; Robotics and automation; Speech analysis; Speech recognition; Speech synthesis; Synthesizers; disfluent speech; filled pauses; speech synthesis;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2010 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dallas, TX
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4295-9
Electronic_ISBN :
1520-6149
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495136
