IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BROADCASTING 59(3) 548-555 2013年9月 [査読有り]
Here we describe a speech-synthesis method using templates that can generate recording-sentence sets for speech databases and produce natural sounding synthesized speech. Applying this method to the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) weather rep...
Reiko Takou   Hiroyuki Segi   Tohru Takagi   Nobumasa Seiyama   
IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRONICS COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER SCIENCES E95A(4) 751-759 2012年4月 [査読有り]
The frequency regions and spectral features that can be used to measure the perceived similarity and continuity of voice quality are reported here. A perceptual evaluation test was conducted to assess the naturalness of spoken sentences in which e...
2011 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING 1757-1760 2011年 [査読有り]
Here we propose a sentence-generation method using templates that can be applied to create a speech database. This method requires the recording of a relatively small sentence set, and the resultant speech database can generate comparatively natur...
映像情報メディア学会誌 : 映像情報メディア = The journal of the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers 65(1) 76-83 2011年 [査読有り]
The design method of a sentence set for a speech-synthesis database strongly influences the quality of the synthesized speech. To minimize the costs associated with making the speech recordings and constructing the speech database, the number of t...