Title :
An evaluation of Mongolian data-driven Text-to-Speech
Author :
Altangerel, Chagnaa ; Purev, Jaimai ; Yesyenbyek, Kerey ; Hansakunbuntheung, Chatchawarn
Author_Institution :
Center for Res. on Language Process., Nat. Univ. of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Abstract :
This paper presents a first attempt to evaluate data-driven speech synthesis of Mongolian trained on 1500-sentence female speech corpus. The speech corpus contains nearly 6 hours of Mongolian female speech that is designed to cover all Mongolian phones. The evaluation is done on two levels. In overall quality evaluation, we generated 25 sentences and asked raters about their quality based on Mean Opinion Score (MOS). The second evaluation uses Phoneme confusion test, which contains all possible phoneme set in Mongolian.
Keywords :
natural language processing; quality management; speech synthesis; MOS; Mongolian data-driven text-to-speech; Mongolian phones; data-driven speech synthesis; female speech corpus; mean opinion score; phoneme confusion test; quality evaluation; Computers; Educational institutions; Speech; Speech recognition; Speech synthesis; Synthesizers; Evaluation; Mongolian; Speech corpus; Text-to-Speech Synthesis;
Conference_Titel :
Oriental COCOSDA held jointly with 2013 Conference on Asian Spoken Language Research and Evaluation (O-COCOSDA/CASLRE), 2013 International Conference
Conference_Location :
Gurgaon
DOI :
10.1109/ICSDA.2013.6709881
