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This paper proposes two types of machine-extracted linguistic features from unlimited text input for Mandarin prosody generation. One is the improved punctuation confidence (iPC) which is a modified version of the previously proposed punctuation confidence that represents likelihood of inserting major punctuation marks (PMs) at word boundaries. Another is the quotation confidence (QC) which measures...
Voice conversion (VC) using artificial neural networks (ANNs) has shown its capability to produce better sound quality of the converted speech than that using Gaussian mixture model (GMM). Although ANN-based VC works reasonably well, there is still room for further improvement. One of the promising ways is to adopt the successful techniques in statistical model-based parameter generation (SMPG), such...
A novel concept, uniqueness logic represented via decimal numbers (UL-D), is proposed and defined in this paper. Aiming at achieving the UL-D, we construct a neural network (i.e., NN) based on weights-and-structure-determination algorithm (i.e., the resultant WASD-NN). Differing from the back-propagation neural network (BP-NN) adjusting weights by lengthy iterative process and being unable to acquire...
A new data-driven approach to building a speaking rate-dependent hierarchical prosodic model (SR-HPM), directly from a large prosody-unlabeled speech database containing utterances of various speaking rates, to describe the influences of speaking rate on Mandarin speech prosody is proposed. It is an extended version of the existing HPM model which contains 12 sub-models to describe various relationships...
In this paper, we propose a maximum mutual information (MMI) training criterion to refine the parameters of the joint density GMM (JDGMM) set to tackle the over-smoothing issue in voice conversion (VC). Conventionally, the maximum likelihood (ML) criterion is used to train a JDGMM set, which characterizes the joint property of the source and target feature vectors. The MMI training criterion, on the...
In this paper, a new approach to syllable-based modeling of FO contour, duration and energy for isolated Mandarin words is proposed. The syllable FO contour model considers three major affecting factors, including lexical tone, syllable position in a word and inter-syllable coarticulation effect; while both the duration and energy models additionally consider one more affecting factor of base syllable...
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