A Japanese TTS system based on multiform units and a speech modification algorithm with harmonics reconstruction.

This paper proposes a new text-to-speech (TTS) system that utilizes large numbers of speech segments to produce very natural and intelligible synthetic speech. There are two innovations; new multiform synthesis units and a new speech modification algorithm based on a vocoder that offers harmonics re...

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Pubblicato in:	IEEE Transactions on speech and audio processing 9, 1 (2001).
Autore principale:	Takano, S.
Natura:	Articolo
Lingua:	inglese
Soggetti:	Japanese TTS system. Acoustic discontinuities. Concatenation points. Harmonics reconstruction. Intelligibility. Multiform synthesis units. Multiform units. Naturalness. Prosody modified speech. Speech modification algorithm. Speech segments. Text-to-speech synthesis system. Unnatural sound. Vocoder.