Title:	Pitch contours as predictors of audible concatenation artifacts
Other Titles:	Kontury F0 jako prediktory slyšitelných nespojitostí při řetězení
Authors:	Legát, Milan Matoušek, Jindřich
Citation:	LEGÁT, Milan; MATOUŠEK, Jindřich. Pitch contours as predictors of audible concatenation artifacts. In: Proceedings of the world congress on engineering and computer science 2011: 19 - 21, 2011 October, San Francisco, USA. Hong Kong: Newswood Limited, 2011, p. 525-529. ISBN 978-988-18210-9-6.
Issue Date:	2011
Publisher:	Newswood Limited
Document type:	článek article
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/11025/17102 http://www.kky.zcu.cz/cs/publications/LegatM_2011_PitchContoursas
ISBN:	978-988-18210-9-6
Keywords:	syntéza řeči;výběr jednotky;zřetězené náklady;kontury
Keywords in different language:	speech synthesis;unit selection;concatenation cost;pitch contours
Abstract in different language:	This paper deals with the traditional problem of the occurrence of audible discontinuities at concatenation points at diphone boundaries in the concatenative speech synthesis. While most of the related studies put stress on the spectral component, we focused on the pitch contours and their role as predictors of the discontinuities. To measure the amount of information contained in the pitch contours, we trained SVM classifiers using perceptual data collected in listening tests. The results have shown that the fine grained pitch contours extracted from a vicinity of the concatenation points carry enough information for classifying continuous and discontinuous joins with a high accuracy.
Rights:	© Milan Legát - Jindřich Matoušek
Appears in Collections:	Články / Articles (KIV)

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