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Presentation 2007-11-28 10:30
Speech synthesis with diverse voices and styles using average voice model
Makoto Tachibana, Takao Kobayashi (Tokyo Tech) SP2007-87
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) This paper describes a technique for synthesizing speech with desired style of an arbitrary target speaker's voice in a hidden Markov model (HMM)-based speech synthesis framework. We adapt an average voice model to a target speaker- and style-dependent model with a small amount of target speaker's data using a technique for simultaneous adaptation of speaker and style. From results of subjective evaluation, we show that the speaker and style reproducibility of the synthetic speech generated using the proposed technique is comparable to that using the conventional style adaptation technique for speaker dependent models. Moreover, subjective and objective experimental results show that we can synthesize speech with diverse voices and styles from about fifty sentences of target speaker's style adaptation data.
Keyword (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) hidden Markov model / speaker adaptation / average voice model / expressive speech synthesis / / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 107, no. 356, SP2007-87, pp. 7-12, Nov. 2007.
Paper # SP2007-87 
Date of Issue 2007-11-21 (SP) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Conference Date 2007-11-28 - 2007-11-28 
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Place (in English) Chiba Institute of Technology 
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Conference Code 2007-11-SP 
Language Japanese 
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Title (in English) Speech synthesis with diverse voices and styles using average voice model 
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Keyword(2) speaker adaptation  
Keyword(3) average voice model  
Keyword(4) expressive speech synthesis  
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1st Author's Name Makoto Tachibana  
1st Author's Affiliation Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech)
2nd Author's Name Takao Kobayashi  
2nd Author's Affiliation Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech)
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Date Time 2007-11-28 10:30:00 
Presentation Time 30 minutes 
Registration for SP 
Paper # SP2007-87 
Volume (vol) vol.107 
Number (no) no.356 
Page pp.7-12 
#Pages 6 
Date of Issue 2007-11-21 (SP) 

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