Unit selection in a concatenative speech synthesis system using a large speech database
ICASSP '96 Proceedings of the Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1996. on Conference Proceedings., 1996 IEEE International Conference - Volume 01
Perceptual and objective detection of discontinuities in concatenative speech synthesis
ICASSP '01 Proceedings of the Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 200. on IEEE International Conference - Volume 02
Design of the Test Stimuli for the Evaluation of Concatenation Cost Functions
TSD '09 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue
On the detection of discontinuities in concatenative speech synthesis
Progress in nonlinear speech processing
Collection and analysis of data for evaluation of concatenation cost functions
TSD'10 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Text, speech and dialogue
Identifying concatenation discontinuities by hierarchical divisive clustering of pitch contours
TSD'11 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Text, speech and dialogue
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In this paper we present an analysis of data, which were collected in listening tests, and are planned to be used for the development and evaluation of concatenation cost functions for unit selection based TTS systems. The aim of the analysis was to evaluate a "richness" of the collected data with respect to the intended utilization. No effort was made to propose a new method for measuring concatenation artifacts. The study was limited to two speakers (male and female), and five short Czech vowels as these sounds are characterized by being highly energetic and having rich spectral content, which induces complexity and wide range of possible discontinuities at concatenation points.