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Presentation 2008-01-25 16:45
Study for Word Synthesis by Concatenating Syllabic Components using Tree Based Clustering
Kazuhisa Uemura, Jin'ichi Murakami, Satoru Ikehara (Tottori Univ.) TL2007-86 SP2007-181 WIT2007-86
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) Word synthesis by concatenating syllabic components method is
proposed as a speech synthesis method.
As a problem of this technique, large amount of recording
words is needed when we make an arbitrary general noun.
Then, all speech ideally can be made by doing tree-based clustering
for collected database.
However, very low quality speech is generated sometimes.
In this paper, our aim is to improvement of the speech quality by doing
tree-based clustering with two different models.
The mean opinion score (MOS) and the ABX test are used for the
evaluation of the speech quality.
As a result of the MOS, the standard model was obtained 1.7
and the enhanced model was obtained 2.5.
Moreover, as a result of an ABX test, the standard model was
obtained 20% and the enhanced model was obtained 80%.
Keyword (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) tree-based clustering / concatenating syllabic components / word synthesis / MFCC / / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 107, no. 435, SP2007-181, pp. 81-86, Jan. 2008.
Paper # SP2007-181 
Date of Issue 2008-01-18 (TL, SP, WIT) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Conference Information
Committee WIT TL SP  
Conference Date 2008-01-24 - 2008-01-25 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) Shimane Univ. 
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Topics (in English) Thinking and Language, Welfare and Speech processing, etc. 
Paper Information
Registration To SP 
Conference Code 2008-01-WIT-TL-SP 
Language Japanese 
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Sub Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Title (in English) Study for Word Synthesis by Concatenating Syllabic Components using Tree Based Clustering 
Sub Title (in English)  
Keyword(1) tree-based clustering  
Keyword(2) concatenating syllabic components  
Keyword(3) word synthesis  
Keyword(4) MFCC  
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1st Author's Name Kazuhisa Uemura  
1st Author's Affiliation Tottori University (Tottori Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Jin'ichi Murakami  
2nd Author's Affiliation Tottori University (Tottori Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Satoru Ikehara  
3rd Author's Affiliation Tottori University (Tottori Univ.)
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Date Time 2008-01-25 16:45:00 
Presentation Time 25 minutes 
Registration for SP 
Paper # TL2007-86, SP2007-181, WIT2007-86 
Volume (vol) vol.107 
Number (no) no.433(TL), no.435(SP), no.437(WIT) 
Page pp.81-86 
#Pages 6 
Date of Issue 2008-01-18 (TL, SP, WIT) 

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