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Presentation 2016-03-04 15:25
Articulation Improvement of Synthesized Rapid Speech Considering Phonological Information
Shunsuke Saga, Yasuo Horiuchi, Shingo Kuroiwa (Chiba Univ.) WIT2015-94
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) Screen reader allows the visually impaired to read the text on the PC screen with synthesized speech and it takes a long time to read aloud. For this reason, many visually impaired users set the reading speed at rather high rate. However, the speech becomes more difficult to hear as the speed becomes faster, therefore easily heard voice has been desired. When the waveform is trimmed to make a faster voice, the consonant with short duration might be deleted. In this study, we proposed a speech rate conversion method to maintain the consonant part of plosive and liquid which have a short duration and trim the subsequent vowel part. As a result of listening experiments for hearing people, the effectiveness of the proposed method was shown.
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(in English) Visually Impaired Person / Screen Reader / Phonological Information / / / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 115, no. 491, WIT2015-94, pp. 31-36, March 2016.
Paper # WIT2015-94 
Date of Issue 2016-02-26 (WIT) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Conference Information
Committee WIT  
Conference Date 2016-03-04 - 2016-03-05 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) Tusukuba Univ. of Tech.(Tsukuba) 
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Topics (in English) Hearing / Visually impaired person support technology, etc. 
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Conference Code 2016-03-WIT 
Language Japanese 
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Title (in English) Articulation Improvement of Synthesized Rapid Speech Considering Phonological Information 
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Keyword(2) Screen Reader  
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1st Author's Name Shunsuke Saga  
1st Author's Affiliation Chiba University (Chiba Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Yasuo Horiuchi  
2nd Author's Affiliation Chiba University (Chiba Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Shingo Kuroiwa  
3rd Author's Affiliation Chiba University (Chiba Univ.)
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Date Time 2016-03-04 15:25:00 
Presentation Time 25 minutes 
Registration for WIT 
Paper # WIT2015-94 
Volume (vol) vol.115 
Number (no) no.491 
Page pp.31-36 
#Pages 6 
Date of Issue 2016-02-26 (WIT) 

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