Shape-invariant pitch-synchronous text-to-speech conversion

Author

Banga, Eduardo R. ; García-Mateo, Carmen

Author_Institution

ETSI Telecomunicacion, Vigo Univ., Spain

Volume

1

fYear

1995

fDate

9-12 May 1995

Firstpage

656

Abstract

Text-to-speech (T-T-S) systems based on the concatenation of speech units need a prosodic modification algorithm to adjust the prosodic features of the stored speech units to the desired output values. We discuss the application of a sinusoidal shape-invariant model to a T-T-S system for Spanish, paying special attention to the concatenation issues and phase treatment. The resulting speech waveform resembles the waveform of its contributory units, without sounding reverberant as in other sinusoidal implementations

Keywords

natural languages; speech coding; speech synthesis; synchronisation; Spanish; phase treatment; prosodic features; prosodic modification algorithm; shape-invariant pitch-synchronous conversion; sinusoidal implementations; sinusoidal shape-invariant model; speech coding; speech units concatenation; speech waveform; stored speech units; text-to-speech conversion; Data mining; Frequency domain analysis; Humans; Reverberation; Shape; Speech analysis; Speech processing; Speech synthesis; Telecommunication standards; Time domain analysis; Vocoders;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1995. ICASSP-95., 1995 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Detroit, MI

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2431-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.1995.479683

Filename

479683