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Presentation 2014-11-13 13:45
A comparative study of paralinguistic information control methods for HMM-based dialogue speech synthesis
Hiroki Mori, Shunsuke Takahashi, Tomohiro Nagata (Utsunomiya Univ.) SP2014-90
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) Toward the realization of dialogue speech synthesis with capability to
control paralinguistic information,
we have proposed the HMM-based speech synthesis based on dialogue
corpus that accompanies with paralinguistic information labels of
abstract dimensions such as pleasantness or arousal.
As methods for controlling paralinguistic information,
context information-based method and adaptive
training/conversion-based method have been proposed so far.
In this report, effectiveness of these methods are compared from the
viewpoints of naturalness and controllability of paralinguistic
information.
The results of subjective evaluation tests by 16 subjects revealed
that the conversion-based method can better control paralinguistic
information than the context information-based method, without
sacrificing naturalness.
Keyword (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) emotion / nonverbal / spoken language / dialogue corpus / HMM-based speech synthesis / context / adaptation / adaptive training  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 114, no. 303, SP2014-90, pp. 1-6, Nov. 2014.
Paper # SP2014-90 
Date of Issue 2014-11-06 (SP) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Conference Date 2014-11-13 - 2014-11-14 
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Place (in English) Kyushu Univ. Chikushi Campus 
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Conference Code 2014-11-SP 
Language Japanese 
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Title (in English) A comparative study of paralinguistic information control methods for HMM-based dialogue speech synthesis 
Sub Title (in English)  
Keyword(1) emotion  
Keyword(2) nonverbal  
Keyword(3) spoken language  
Keyword(4) dialogue corpus  
Keyword(5) HMM-based speech synthesis  
Keyword(6) context  
Keyword(7) adaptation  
Keyword(8) adaptive training  
1st Author's Name Hiroki Mori  
1st Author's Affiliation Utsunomiya University (Utsunomiya Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Shunsuke Takahashi  
2nd Author's Affiliation Utsunomiya University (Utsunomiya Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Tomohiro Nagata  
3rd Author's Affiliation Utsunomiya University (Utsunomiya Univ.)
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Date Time 2014-11-13 13:45:00 
Presentation Time 25 minutes 
Registration for SP 
Paper # SP2014-90 
Volume (vol) vol.114 
Number (no) no.303 
Page pp.1-6 
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Date of Issue 2014-11-06 (SP) 


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