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Legát, M and Skarnitzl, R. : The Role of Nasal Contexts on Quality of Vowel Concatenations . Text, Speech and Dialogue, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference TSD 2012, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 7499, p. 551-558, Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg, Germany, 2012.

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This paper deals with the traditional problem of occurrence of audible discontinuities at concatenation points at diphone boundaries in the concatenative speech synthesis. We present results of an analysis of effects of nasal context mismatches on the quality of concatenations in five short Czech vowels. The study was conducted with two voices (one male and one female), and the results suggest that the female voice vowels /a/, /e/ and /o/ are inclined to concatenation discontinuities due to nasalized contexts.

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Title: The Role of Nasal Contexts on Quality of Vowel Concatenations
Author: Legát, M ; Skarnitzl, R.
Language: English
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 Artificial Intelligence
Číslo vydání: 7499
Page: 551 - 558
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32790-2_67
ISSN: 0302-9743
Publisher: Springer
Address: Berlin-Heidelberg, Germany
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Keywords

speech synthesis, unit selection, concatenation cost, nasality, phase mismatch, pitch marks

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@INCOLLECTION{LegatM_2012_TheRoleofNasal,
 author = {Leg\'{a}t, M and Skarnitzl, R.},
 title = {The Role of Nasal Contexts on Quality of Vowel Concatenations},
 year = {2012},
 publisher = {Springer},
 address = {Berlin-Heidelberg, Germany},
 volume = {7499},
 pages = {551-558},
 booktitle = {Text, Speech and Dialogue, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference TSD 2012},
 series = {Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence},
 ISSN = {0302-9743},
 doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-32790-2_67},
 url = {http://www.kky.zcu.cz/en/publications/LegatM_2012_TheRoleofNasal},
}