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| Presentation | 2019-08-28 14:40 [Poster Presentation] Analysis of prosodic differences between a newscaster and amateur speakers using partial-substituted synthetic speech Takuya Ozuru (Univ. of Tokyo), Yusuke Ijima (NTT), Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu (Univ. of Tokyo)  SP2019-11 |
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| Abstract | (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| (in English) | This paper analyzes prosodic differences between a professional newscaster and amateur speakers which affects listeners’ perceptual impression. Speech of professional newscasters easily suggest us his/her occupation, that is newscaster. Although people perceive many factors from human’s speech, it is not revealed what factors are dominant for him/her to be professional. To this end, we conduct a large scale perceptual experiment using synthesized speech by deep neural networks (DNN) based speech synthesis. Speech stimuli are synthesized, in which prosodic features such as phoneme duration or F0 are partially substituted to those of target speakers by changing DNN trained from professional and amateur speakers. Listeners are asked to choose one speech which he/she thought that it is more acceptable as speech of a newscaster. The results of the perceptual experiment indicate that listeners’ impressions are affected by F0 rather than phoneme duration, although both features affect the listeners impressions. We further analyze the relationship between the obtained perceptual scores and some prosodic related features. |
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| Keyword | (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| (in English) | prosodic features / professional newscaster / amateur speakers / phoneme duration / fundamental frequency / speech synthesis / / | |
| Reference Info. | IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 119, no. 188, SP2019-11, pp. 13-18, Aug. 2019. | |
| Paper # | SP2019-11 | |
| Date of Issue | 2019-08-21 (SP) | |
| ISSN | Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 | |
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| Conference Information | |
| Committee | SP |
| Conference Date | 2019-08-28 - 2019-08-28 |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | Kyoto Univ. |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
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| Registration To | SP |
| Conference Code | 2019-08-SP |
| Language | Japanese |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | Analysis of prosodic differences between a newscaster and amateur speakers using partial-substituted synthetic speech |
| Sub Title (in English) | |
| Keyword(1) | prosodic features |
| Keyword(2) | professional newscaster |
| Keyword(3) | amateur speakers |
| Keyword(4) | phoneme duration |
| Keyword(5) | fundamental frequency |
| Keyword(6) | speech synthesis |
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| Keyword(8) | |
| 1st Author's Name | Takuya Ozuru |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | University of Tokyo (Univ. of Tokyo) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Yusuke Ijima |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) |
| 3rd Author's Name | Daisuke Saito |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | University of Tokyo (Univ. of Tokyo) |
| 4th Author's Name | Nobuaki Minematsu |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | University of Tokyo (Univ. of Tokyo) |
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| 5th Author's Affiliation | () |
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| 6th Author's Affiliation | () |
| Speaker | Author-1 |
| Date Time | 2019-08-28 14:40:00 |
| Presentation Time | 60 minutes |
| Registration for | SP |
| Paper # | SP2019-11 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.119 |
| Number (no) | no.188 |
| Page | pp.13-18 |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2019-08-21 (SP) |
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