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Legát, M. and Matoušek, J. : Design of the Test Stimuli for the Evaluation of Concatenation Cost Functions . Text, Speech and Dialogue, proceedings of the 12th International Conference TSD 2009, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 5729, p. 339-346, Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg, Germany, 2009.

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A large number of methods for measuring of audible discontinuities, which occur at concatenation points in synthesized speech, have been proposed in recent years. However, none of them proved to be comparatively better than others across all languages and recording conditions and the presented results have sometimes even been in contradiction. What is more, none of the tested concatenation cost functions seem to be reliably reflecting the human perception of such discontinuities. Thus, the design of the concatenation cost functions is still an open issue, and there is a lot of work remaining to be done. In this paper, we deal with the problem of preparing the test stimuli for evaluating the performance of these functions, which is, in our opinion, one of the key aspects in this field.

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Title: Design of the Test Stimuli for the Evaluation of Concatenation Cost Functions
Author: Legát, M. ; Matoušek, J.
Language: English
Date of publication: 13 Sep 2009
Year: 2009
Type of publication: Papers in proceedings of reviewed conferences
Book title: Text, Speech and Dialogue, proceedings of the 12th International Conference TSD 2009
Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Číslo vydání: 5729
Page: 339 - 346
ISBN: 978-3-642-04207-2
ISSN: 0302-9743
Publisher: Springer
Address: Berlin-Heidelberg, Germany
Date: 13 Sep 2009 - 18 Sep 2009
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Keywords

speech synthesis, unit selection, concatenation cost, test stimuli, listening tests

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@INPROCEEDINGS{LegatM_2009_DesignoftheTest,
 author = {Leg\'{a}t, M. and Matou\v{s}ek, J.},
 title = {Design of the Test Stimuli for the Evaluation of Concatenation Cost Functions},
 year = {2009},
 publisher = {Springer},
 address = {Berlin-Heidelberg, Germany},
 volume = {5729},
 pages = {339-346},
 booktitle = {Text, Speech and Dialogue, proceedings of the 12th International Conference TSD 2009},
 series = {Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence},
 ISBN = {978-3-642-04207-2},
 ISSN = {0302-9743},
 url = {http://www.kky.zcu.cz/en/publications/LegatM_2009_DesignoftheTest},
}