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Grůber M. and Hanzlíček Z. : Czech Expressive Speech Synthesis in Limited Domain: Comparison of Unit Selection and HMM-based Approaches . Text, Speech and Dialogue, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference TSD 2012, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 7499, p. 656-664, Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg, Germany, 2012.

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This paper deals with expressive speech synthesis in a limited domain restricted to conversations between humans and a computer on a given topic. Two different methods (unit selection and HMM-based speech synthesis) were employed to produce expressive synthetic speech, both with the same description of expressivity by so-called communicative functions. Such a discrete division is related to our limited domain and it is not intended to be a general solution for expressivity description. Resulting synthetic speech was presented to listeners within a web-based listening test to evaluate whether the expressivity is perceived as expected. The comparison of both methods is also shown.

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Title: Czech Expressive Speech Synthesis in Limited Domain: Comparison of Unit Selection and HMM-based Approaches
Author: Grůber M. ; Hanzlíček Z.
Language: English
Date of publication: 1 Sep 2012
Year: 2012
Type of publication: Papers in journals
Book title: Text, Speech and Dialogue, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference TSD 2012
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Číslo vydání: 7499
Page: 656 - 664
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32790-2_80
ISSN: 0302-9743
Publisher: Springer
Address: Berlin-Heidelberg, Germany
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expressive speech synthesis, unit selection, HMM-based speech synthesis, communicative functions

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@INCOLLECTION{GruberM_2012_CzechExpressive,
 author = {Gr\r{u}ber M. and Hanzl\'{i}\v{c}ek Z.},
 title = {Czech Expressive Speech Synthesis in Limited Domain: Comparison of Unit Selection and HMM-based Approaches },
 year = {2012},
 publisher = {Springer},
 address = {Berlin-Heidelberg, Germany},
 volume = {7499},
 pages = {656-664},
 booktitle = {Text, Speech and Dialogue, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference TSD 2012},
 series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
 ISSN = {0302-9743},
 doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-32790-2_80},
 url = {http://www.kky.zcu.cz/en/publications/GruberM_2012_CzechExpressive},
}