Speech Prosody in Speech Synthesis: Modeling and generation of prosody for high quality and flexible speech synthesis
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Beschreibung
The volume addresses issues concerning prosody generation in speech synthesis, including prosody modeling, how we can convey para- and non-linguistic information in speech synthesis, and prosody control in speech synthesis (including prosody conversions). A high level of quality has already been achieved in speech synthesis by using selection-based methods with segments of human speech. Although the method enables synthetic speech with various voice qualities and speaking styles, it requires large speech corpora with targeted quality and style. Accordingly, speech conversion techniques are now of growing interest among researchers. HMM/GMM-based methods are widely used, but entail several major problems when viewed from the prosody perspective; prosodic features cover a wider time span than segmental features and their frame-by-frame processing is not always appropriate. The book offers a good overview of state-of-the-art studies on prosody in speech synthesis.
The volume addresses issues concerning prosody generation in speech synthesis, including prosody modeling, how we can convey para- and non-linguistic information in speech synthesis, and prosody control in speech synthesis (including prosody conversions). A high level of quality has already been achieved in speech synthesis by using selection-based methods with segments of human speech. Although the method enables synthetic speech with various voice qualities and speaking styles, it requires large speech corpora with targeted quality and style.
Accordingly, speech conversion techniques are now of growing interest among researchers. HMM/GMM-based methods are widely used, but entail several major problems when viewed from the prosody perspective; prosodic features cover a wider time span than segmental features and their frame-by-frame processing is not always appropriate. The book offers a good overview of state-of-the-art studies on prosody in speech synthesis.
Selects recent works on speech prosody written by world-wide eminent scholars; a “must read” book of the speech “prosodist” Gives clear and total view on how prosody conveying linguistic and para-/non- linguistic information Offers guidelines toward an ultimate goal of speech synthesis; realizing human-like quality and flexibility in speech synthesis Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Keikichi Hirose
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Modeling of Prosody Prosody Conversions Prosody Generation Selection-based Methods with Segments of Human Speech Speech Synthesis