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Presentation 2016-01-14 13:00
[Invited Talk] Articulatory controllable statistical parametric speech synthesis using EMA data
Junichi Yamagishi (NII/Univ. Edinburgh) SP2015-88
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(in English) This paper describes speech processing work in which articulator movements are used in conjunction with the acoustic speech signal and/or linguistic information. By “articulator movements”, we mean the changing positions of human speech articulators such as the tongue and lips, which may be recorded by EMA, amongst other articulography techniques. In this paper we provide an overview of statistical voice conversion and speech synthesis techniques which use articulator movements as part of the process to generate synthetic speech. The statistical parametirc speech synthesis is able to synthesise highly intelligible and smooth speech sounds. In addition, the HMM’s parameters can be adapted using a small amount of training data to diversify the characteristics of syn- thetic speech. However, this approach still has some limitations.The structure of conventional HMM-based acoustic models is akin to a black box, without explicit correspondence to the speech production mechanism. It is difficult to integrate phonetic knowledge concerning the properties of speech into acoustic feature prediction directly. By incorporating articulatory signals we can explicitly introduce articulator movements into the speech synthesis framework to make speech synthesis outputs “articulatorily controllable”, meaning that we can manipulate synthetic speech not only in the acoustic domain but also in the articulatory domain intuitively. In this paper we have introduced an overview of several systems that we have built and experiments that we have conducted for this purpose.
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(in English) HMM speech synthesis / Articulatory movement / EMA / Multiple regression HMM / / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 115, no. 392, SP2015-88, pp. 19-24, Jan. 2016.
Paper # SP2015-88 
Date of Issue 2016-01-07 (SP) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Conference Date 2016-01-14 - 2016-01-14 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) Sunpian Kawasaki 
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Topics (in English) Synthesis, Generation, Prosody, etc. 
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Conference Code 2016-01-SP 
Language Japanese 
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Title (in English) Articulatory controllable statistical parametric speech synthesis using EMA data 
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Keyword(1) HMM speech synthesis  
Keyword(2) Articulatory movement  
Keyword(3) EMA  
Keyword(4) Multiple regression HMM  
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1st Author's Name Junichi Yamagishi  
1st Author's Affiliation National Institute of Informatics/University of Edinburgh (NII/Univ. Edinburgh)
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Date Time 2016-01-14 13:00:00 
Presentation Time 60 minutes 
Registration for SP 
Paper # SP2015-88 
Volume (vol) vol.115 
Number (no) no.392 
Page pp.19-24 
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Date of Issue 2016-01-07 (SP) 


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