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Matoušek, J. and Tihelka, D. and Psutka, J. : Automatic segmentation for Czech concatenative speech synthesis using statistical approach with boundary-specific correction . Eurospeech 2003 - Interspeech, proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, p. 301-304, ISCA, Geneva, Switzerland, 2003.

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This paper deals with the problems of automatic segmentation for the purposes of Czech concatenative speech synthesis. Statistical approach to speech segmentation using HMMs is applied in the baseline system. Several improvements of this system are then proposed to get more accurate segmentation results. These enhancements mainly concern the various strategies of HMM initialization (flat-start initialization, hand-labeled or speaker independent HMM bootstrapping). Since HTK was utilized in our work, a correction of the output boundary placements is proposed to reflect speech parameterization mechanism. An objective comparison of various automatic methods and manual segmentation is performed to find out the best method. The best results were obtained for boundary-specific statistical correction of the segmentation that resulted from bootstrapping with hand-labeled HMMs (96% segmentation accuracy in tolerance region 20ms).

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Název: Automatic segmentation for Czech concatenative speech synthesis using statistical approach with boundary-specific correction
Autor: Matoušek, J. ; Tihelka, D. ; Psutka, J.
Jazyk publikace: anglicky
Datum vydání: 1.9.2003
Rok vydání: 2003
Typ publikace: Stať ve sborníku
Název knihy: Eurospeech 2003 - Interspeech, proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology
Strana: 301 - 304
ISSN: 1018-4074
Nakladatel: ISCA
Místo vydání: Geneva, Switzerland
Datum: 1.9.2003 - 4.9.2003
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HMM-based speech segmentation, shifting HTK boundaries, HMM initialization, flat-start, bootstrap, boundary-specific statistical correction, objective comparison, concatenative speech synthesis

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@INPROCEEDINGS{MatousekJ_2003_Automatic,
 author = {Matou\v{s}ek, J. and Tihelka, D. and Psutka, J.},
 title = {Automatic segmentation for Czech concatenative speech synthesis using statistical approach with boundary-specific correction},
 year = {2003},
 publisher = {ISCA},
 address = {Geneva, Switzerland},
 pages = {301-304},
 booktitle = {Eurospeech 2003 - Interspeech, proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology},
 ISSN = {1018-4074},
 url = {http://www.kky.zcu.cz/en/publications/MatousekJ_2003_Automatic},
}