DocumentCode
2791761
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
fYear
2010
fDate
14-19 March 2010
Firstpage
4810
Lastpage
4813
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2010 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Dallas, TX
ISSN
1520-6149
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-4295-9
Electronic_ISBN
1520-6149
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495136
Filename
5495136
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