• DocumentCode
    454653
  • Title

    A New Pitch Generation Model Based on Internal Dependence of Pitch Contour for Manadrin TTS System

  • Author

    Yu, Jian ; Zhang, Wanzhi ; Tao, Jianhua

  • Author_Institution
    Nat. Lab. of Pattern Recognition, Chinese Acad. of Sci.
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    14-19 May 2006
  • Abstract
    The paper presents a new pitch generation model based on internal dependence of pitch contour. This model pays more attention to the impact of adjacent syllables´ pitch contours on the current one. A new definition of concatenation cost is presented to measure the naturalness of pitch contours between every two adjacent syllables. Based on this definition, the model concentrates on how to remove unnatural pitch contours across concatenated places which are always the most unstable parts in the synthesized speech. This model can generate natural, fluent pitch contours and was proved to be able to catches the essential nature of pitch contour
  • Keywords
    natural languages; speech synthesis; Manadrin TTS system; pitch contour; pitch generation model; synthesized speech; Automation; Concatenated codes; Costs; Laboratories; Natural languages; Network synthesis; Pattern recognition; Speech processing; Speech synthesis; Viterbi algorithm;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2006. ICASSP 2006 Proceedings. 2006 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Toulouse
  • ISSN
    1520-6149
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0469-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICASSP.2006.1660127
  • Filename
    1660127