Information: Join today and make your research activities more affordable! Technical workshop participation fees and annual registration fees are available at member rates.
Notice: [Important] Announcement of Changes to Registration Fee Payment and Manuscript Upload Procedures for IEICE Technical Meetings
IEICE Technical Committee Submission System
Conference Paper's Information		 Online Proceedings
[Sign in]
Tech. Rep. Archives
 Go Top Page Go Previous   [Japanese] / [English] 

Paper Abstract and Keywords
Presentation 2012-06-14 16:00
Perceptual evaluation of synthesized speech reflecting "personalities"
Minoru Tsuzaki (KCUA), Keiichi Tokuda (NITEC), Hisashi Kawai (KDDI R&D Labs), Yoshinori Shiga, Jinfu Ni (NICT), Keiichiro Oura, Sayaka Shiota (NITEC) SP2012-39
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) Perceptual evaluation tests were performed for talker selection methods in the application of the speaker adaptation framework in an HMM speech synthesis technique. The speaker adaptation was tried to afford the personality of input Japanese utterances in synthesizing English utterances. Three selection methods as follows were evaluated: (a) choosing an acoustic model in the GMM built for the English corpus on the basis of the maximum likelihood to the input Japanese voice, (b) choosing by the weighted interpolation in the English space with the reference points of the bilingual speakers, (c) choosing by the multiple linear prediction using the auditory parameters estimated for the perceptual space of the bilingual speakers. Two types of perceptual tests were carried out. The first one was to ask listeners to choose one of the paired Japanese utterances which was heard to be "mimicked" by the English synthesized utterance. The second one was to ask listeners to choose one of the paired synthesized English utterances which was heard to "mimic" the Japanese natural utterance. The performances of all the selection methods were significantly above the chance in both tasks, except for the type (c) selection in the second task. However, the performance levels were not so high, which implies that further improvement will be required.
Keyword (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) speech synthesis / HMM synthesis / speaker adaptation / perceptual evaluation / personality / bilingual corpora / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 112, no. 81, SP2012-39, pp. 33-38, June 2012.
Paper # SP2012-39 
Date of Issue 2012-06-07 (SP) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
Copyright
and
reproduction		 All rights are reserved and no part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Notwithstanding, instructors are permitted to photocopy isolated articles for noncommercial classroom use without fee. (License No.: 10GA0019/12GB0052/13GB0056/17GB0034/18GB0034)
Download PDF SP2012-39

Conference Information
Committee SP  
Conference Date 2012-06-14 - 2012-06-15 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) NTT Atsugi R&D Center 
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Topics (in English) Speech perception, production, auditory communication, etc. 
Paper Information
Registration To SP 
Conference Code 2012-06-SP 
Language Japanese 
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Sub Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Title (in English) Perceptual evaluation of synthesized speech reflecting "personalities" 
Sub Title (in English)  
Keyword(1) speech synthesis  
Keyword(2) HMM synthesis  
Keyword(3) speaker adaptation  
Keyword(4) perceptual evaluation  
Keyword(5) personality  
Keyword(6) bilingual corpora  
Keyword(7)  
Keyword(8)  
1st Author's Name Minoru Tsuzaki  
1st Author's Affiliation Kyoto City University of Arts (KCUA)
2nd Author's Name Keiichi Tokuda  
2nd Author's Affiliation Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITEC)
3rd Author's Name Hisashi Kawai  
3rd Author's Affiliation KDDI R&D Laboratories (KDDI R&D Labs)
4th Author's Name Yoshinori Shiga  
4th Author's Affiliation National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
5th Author's Name Jinfu Ni  
5th Author's Affiliation National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
6th Author's Name Keiichiro Oura  
6th Author's Affiliation Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITEC)
7th Author's Name Sayaka Shiota  
7th Author's Affiliation Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITEC)
8th Author's Name  
8th Author's Affiliation ()
9th Author's Name  
9th Author's Affiliation ()
10th Author's Name  
10th Author's Affiliation ()
11th Author's Name  
11th Author's Affiliation ()
12th Author's Name  
12th Author's Affiliation ()
13th Author's Name  
13th Author's Affiliation ()
14th Author's Name  
14th Author's Affiliation ()
15th Author's Name  
15th Author's Affiliation ()
16th Author's Name  
16th Author's Affiliation ()
17th Author's Name  
17th Author's Affiliation ()
18th Author's Name  
18th Author's Affiliation ()
19th Author's Name  
19th Author's Affiliation ()
20th Author's Name  
20th Author's Affiliation ()
21st Author's Name  
21st Author's Affiliation ()
22nd Author's Name  
22nd Author's Affiliation ()
23rd Author's Name  
23rd Author's Affiliation ()
24th Author's Name  
24th Author's Affiliation ()
25th Author's Name  
25th Author's Affiliation ()
26th Author's Name / /
26th Author's Affiliation ()
()
27th Author's Name / /
27th Author's Affiliation ()
()
28th Author's Name / /
28th Author's Affiliation ()
()
29th Author's Name / /
29th Author's Affiliation ()
()
30th Author's Name / /
30th Author's Affiliation ()
()
31st Author's Name / /
31st Author's Affiliation ()
()
32nd Author's Name / /
32nd Author's Affiliation ()
()
33rd Author's Name / /
33rd Author's Affiliation ()
()
34th Author's Name / /
34th Author's Affiliation ()
()
35th Author's Name / /
35th Author's Affiliation ()
()
36th Author's Name / /
36th Author's Affiliation ()
()
Speaker Author-1 
Date Time 2012-06-14 16:00:00 
Presentation Time 30 minutes 
Registration for SP 
Paper # SP2012-39 
Volume (vol) vol.112 
Number (no) no.81 
Page pp.33-38 
#Pages 6 
Date of Issue 2012-06-07 (SP) 

[Return to Top Page]

[Return to IEICE Web Page]
The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), Japan