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Presentation 2020-03-03 09:00
[Poster Presentation] Initial analysis of oral reading skills obtained from large scale subjective evaluation
Takuya Ozuru (Univ. of Tokyo), Yusuke Ijima (NTT), Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu (Univ. of Tokyo) EA2019-135 SIP2019-137 SP2019-84
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) Speech of professional newscasters easily suggest us his/her occupation, that is newscaster. So far, we have analyzed prosodic differences between a professional newscaster and amateur speakers which affects listeners’ perceptual impression by applying speech synthesis technology. The results suggest that there are large gaps of skill not only between professional and amateur speakers, but also within amateur speakers. Therefore, this paper conducts large scale subjective evaluations and analyzes the oral reading skills of many professional and amateur speakers. A total of 1275 pairs of comparisons was performed on the natural speech of 51 speakers, and a continuous modeling of oral reading skills was attempted. An experiment to verify the obtained results was performed to determine whether the speech was uttered by a professional speaker, and the correlation with the results and the obtained reading skills was analyzed. In addition, we performed a similar experiment using synthesized speech, and verified whether the tendency of the subjective evaluation results was consistent between the natural speech and the synthesized speech.
Keyword (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) prosodic features / professional newscaster / amateur speakers / oral reading skill / speech synthesis / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 119, no. 441, SP2019-84, pp. 195-200, March 2020.
Paper # SP2019-84 
Date of Issue 2020-02-24 (EA, SIP, SP) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Conference Information
Committee SP EA SIP  
Conference Date 2020-03-02 - 2020-03-03 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) Okinawa Industry Support Center 
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Conference Code 2020-03-SP-EA-SIP 
Language Japanese 
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
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Title (in English) Initial analysis of oral reading skills obtained from large scale subjective evaluation 
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Keyword(1) prosodic features  
Keyword(2) professional newscaster  
Keyword(3) amateur speakers  
Keyword(4) oral reading skill  
Keyword(5) speech synthesis  
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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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Date Time 2020-03-03 09:00:00 
Presentation Time 90 minutes 
Registration for SP 
Paper # EA2019-135, SIP2019-137, SP2019-84 
Volume (vol) vol.119 
Number (no) no.439(EA), no.440(SIP), no.441(SP) 
Page pp.195-200 
#Pages 6 
Date of Issue 2020-02-24 (EA, SIP, SP) 

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