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Grůber, M. and Tihelka, D : Expressive Speech Synthesis for Czech Limited Domain Dialogue System - Basic Experiments . 2010 IEEE 10th International Conference on Signal Processing Proceedings , vol. 1, p. 561-564, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Beijing, China, 2010.

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Abstract

This paper describes a development of limited domainexpressive speech synthesis for the Czech language. Ourcurrent speech synthesis system is based on unit selection methodsand produces high quality speech in a neutral speaking style. Thiswork focuses on modifications made in the synthesis algorithmto integrate expressivity into generated speech. There is alsointroduced a listening test, which should prove or disprove thatexpressivity in limited domain speech synthesis could be modelledby so-called communicative functions. A comparison betweenneutral and expressive speech synthesis is presented. This paperalso briefly discusses the process of an expressive speech corpusrecording and its annotating using the communicative functionsby means of another listening test.

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Title: Expressive Speech Synthesis for Czech Limited Domain Dialogue System - Basic Experiments
Author: Grůber, M. ; Tihelka, D
Language: English
Date of publication: 24 Oct 2010
Year: 2010
Type of publication: Papers in proceedings of reviewed conferences
Title of journal or book: 2010 IEEE 10th International Conference on Signal Processing Proceedings
Číslo vydání: 1
Page: 561 - 564
DOI: 10.1109/ICOSP.2010.5656451
ISBN: 978-1-4244-5898-1
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
Address: Beijing, China
Date: 24 Oct 2010 - 28 Oct 2010
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TTS, expressive speech synthesis, unit selection, listening test

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@INPROCEEDINGS{GruberM_2010_ExpressiveSpeech,
 author = {Gr\r{u}ber, M. and Tihelka, D},
 title = {Expressive Speech Synthesis for Czech Limited Domain Dialogue System - Basic Experiments },
 year = {2010},
 publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.},
 journal = {2010 IEEE 10th International Conference on Signal Processing Proceedings },
 address = {Beijing, China},
 volume = {1},
 pages = {561-564},
 ISBN = {978-1-4244-5898-1},
 doi = {10.1109/ICOSP.2010.5656451},
 url = {http://www.kky.zcu.cz/en/publications/GruberM_2010_ExpressiveSpeech},
}