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

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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Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE Transactions on speech and audio processing 9, 1 (2001).
Main Author: Takano, S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
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.