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This paper presents an improved unit selection and waveform concatenation speech synthesis method by gathering and utilizing human feedbacks on synthetic speech. Firstly, a set of texts are synthesized by the baseline unit selection synthesis system. Each prosodic word within the synthetic speech is then evaluated as a natural one or an unnatural one by listeners. In our proposed method, these natural...
In this paper, the prosody of a parallel multispeaking rate Mandarin read speech corpus is investigated. The corpus contains four parallel speech datasets uttered by a female professional announcer with various speech rates (SRs) of 4.40 (fast), 3.82 (normal), 2.97 (median) and 2.45 (slow) syllables/second. By using the unsupervised joint prosody labeling and modeling (PLM) method proposed previously,...
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