This PhD thesis focuses on the automatic speech synthesis field, and more specifically on unit selection. A deep analysis and a diagnosis of the unit selection algorithm (lattice search algorithm) is provided. The importance of the solution optimality is discussed and a new unit selection implementation based on a A* algorithm is presented. Three cost function enhancements are also presented. The first one is a new way – in the target cost – to minimize important spectral differences by selecting sequences of candidate units that minimize a mean cost instead of an absolute one. This cost is tested on a phonemic duration distance but can be applied to others. Our second proposition is a target sub-cost addressing intonation that is based on ...
For concatenative speech synthesis based on non-uniform unit selection, the key to improve the synth...
Concatenating units of natural speech is one method of speech synthesis1. Most such systems use an i...
In concatenative text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis systems unit selection aims to reduce the number of ...
This PhD thesis focuses on the automatic speech synthesis field, and more specifically on unit selec...
International audienceUnit selection speech synthesis systems rely, except for rare cases, on target...
This paper presents a method for selecting speech units for polyphone concatenative speech synthesis...
Cette thèse s'inscrit dans le cadre de la synthèse de parole à partir du texte. Elle traite plus pré...
This thesis relates to text-to-speech synthesis and deals more particularly with the corpus based ap...
International audienceSpeech synthesis systems usually use the Viterbi algorithm as a basis for unit...
Generally, corpus-based speech synthesis systems provide a considerable synthesis quality since the ...
This thesis relates to Text-To-Speech synthesis and more particularly deals with a corpus based appr...
Tato práce se zabývá jednou z klíčových součástí metody syntézy řeči výběrem jednotek - návrhem ceny...
In this paper, a novel method for the selection of synthesis unit is proposed. The monosyllables are...
Cette thèse s'inscrit dans le cadre de la synthèse de parole à partir du texte. Elle traite plus pré...
Le principe des systèmes de synthèse de la parole actuels est de sélectionner, dans une importante b...
For concatenative speech synthesis based on non-uniform unit selection, the key to improve the synth...
Concatenating units of natural speech is one method of speech synthesis1. Most such systems use an i...
In concatenative text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis systems unit selection aims to reduce the number of ...
This PhD thesis focuses on the automatic speech synthesis field, and more specifically on unit selec...
International audienceUnit selection speech synthesis systems rely, except for rare cases, on target...
This paper presents a method for selecting speech units for polyphone concatenative speech synthesis...
Cette thèse s'inscrit dans le cadre de la synthèse de parole à partir du texte. Elle traite plus pré...
This thesis relates to text-to-speech synthesis and deals more particularly with the corpus based ap...
International audienceSpeech synthesis systems usually use the Viterbi algorithm as a basis for unit...
Generally, corpus-based speech synthesis systems provide a considerable synthesis quality since the ...
This thesis relates to Text-To-Speech synthesis and more particularly deals with a corpus based appr...
Tato práce se zabývá jednou z klíčových součástí metody syntézy řeči výběrem jednotek - návrhem ceny...
In this paper, a novel method for the selection of synthesis unit is proposed. The monosyllables are...
Cette thèse s'inscrit dans le cadre de la synthèse de parole à partir du texte. Elle traite plus pré...
Le principe des systèmes de synthèse de la parole actuels est de sélectionner, dans une importante b...
For concatenative speech synthesis based on non-uniform unit selection, the key to improve the synth...
Concatenating units of natural speech is one method of speech synthesis1. Most such systems use an i...
In concatenative text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis systems unit selection aims to reduce the number of ...