Expressive Speech Synthesis for Czech Limited Domain Dialogue System – Basic Experiments

摘要：

This paper describes a development of limited domain expressive speech synthesis for the Czech language. Our current speech synthesis system is based on unit selection methods and produces high quality speech in a neutral speaking style. This work focuses on modifications made in the synthesis algorithm to integrate expressivity into generated speech. There is also introduced a listening test, which should prove or disprove that expressivity in limited domain speech synthesis could be modelled by so-called communicative functions. A comparison between neutral and expressive speech synthesis is presented. This paper also briefly discusses the process of an expressive speech corpus recording and its annotating using the communicative functions by means of another listening test.

作者: Martin Gruber Daniel Tihelka

作者单位: Dept.of Cybernetics, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2010 IEEE 10th International Conference on Signal Processing(第十届信号处理国际会议 ICSP 2010)

会议地点: 北京

会议语种:英文

页码: 561-564

在线出版日期: 2010-08-24（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）