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| Presentation | 2013-12-20 13:15 [Invited Talk] A Unified Trajectory Tiling Approach to High Quality Speech Rendering Yao Qian, Frank K.Soong (MSRA)  SP2013-91 |
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| Abstract | (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| (in English) | In human-machine speech communication, it is challenging to make the machine talk as naturally as human to facilitate "frictionless" human-machine interactions. In this paper, we introduce a "trajectory tiling" based approach to high quality speech rendering, where speech parameter trajectories, extracted from natural, processed, or synthesized speech, are used to guide the search for the best sequence of waveform "tiles" stored in a pre-recorded speech database. The good "tile" candidates at phone, state or frame are then used to construct a lattice-like "sausage". In the sausage, the best path of concatenated tiles is then searched via the Viterbi algorithm. The best string of concatenated waveform segments (tiles) is output as the final rendered speech. The proposed trajectory tiling approach to speech rendering has been tested in three tasks: TTS synthesis, cross-lingual voice transformation for personalized speech-to-speech translation and mixed-code TTS synthesis. Experimental results show that the trajectory tiling approach can yield speech which is natural and highly intelligible. The perceived high quality of rendered speech is also confirmed in both objective and subjective evaluations. | |
| Keyword | (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| (in English) | Speech Synthesis / Cross-lingual / Voice Transformation / Trajectory Tiling / Mixed-code TTS / / / | |
| Reference Info. | IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 113, no. 366, SP2013-91, pp. 109-114, Dec. 2013. | |
| Paper # | SP2013-91 | |
| Date of Issue | 2013-12-12 (SP) | |
| ISSN | Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 | |
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| Conference Information | |
| Committee | SP IPSJ-SLP |
| Conference Date | 2013-12-19 - 2013-12-20 |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
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| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | 15th Symposium on Spoken Language |
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| Registration To | SP |
| Conference Code | 2013-12-SP-SLP |
| Language | English |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
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| Title (in English) | A Unified Trajectory Tiling Approach to High Quality Speech Rendering |
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| Keyword(1) | Speech Synthesis |
| Keyword(2) | Cross-lingual |
| Keyword(3) | Voice Transformation |
| Keyword(4) | Trajectory Tiling |
| Keyword(5) | Mixed-code TTS |
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| 1st Author's Name | Yao Qian |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Frank K.Soong |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) |
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| Speaker | Author-1 |
| Date Time | 2013-12-20 13:15:00 |
| Presentation Time | 60 minutes |
| Registration for | SP |
| Paper # | SP2013-91 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.113 |
| Number (no) | no.366 |
| Page | pp.109-114 |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2013-12-12 (SP) |
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