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Matoušek, J and Skarnitzl, R. and Tihelka, D. and Machač, P. : Towards Linguistic Naturalness of Synthetic Speech . Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2011, p. 561-566, San Francisco, USA, 2011.

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Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2011

Abstract

This paper presents another step towards linguistic naturalness of synthetic Czech. The main goal of this study is to avoid unintended occurrences of parasitic speech sounds (namely preglottalization) in synthesised speech. Firstly, procedures for both automatic detection and segmentation of these sounds in source speech recordings are presented. Then, two speech synthesis scenarios are proposed and employed to synthesise speech without preglottalization. Both scenarios succeeded in suppressing intrusiveness of preglottalization with the scenario of penalisation of preglottalization during unit selection being evaluated as the better one.

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Title: Towards Linguistic Naturalness of Synthetic Speech
Author: Matoušek, J ; Skarnitzl, R. ; Tihelka, D. ; Machač, P.
Language: English
Year: 2011
Type of publication: Papers in proceedings of reviewed conferences
Book title: Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2011
Page: 561 - 566
ISBN: 978-988-18210-9-6
ISSN: 2078-0958
Address: San Francisco, USA
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Keywords

parasitic speech sound, preglottalization, linguistic naturalness, speech synthesis, unit selection

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@INPROCEEDINGS{MatousekJ_2011_TowardsLinguistic,
 author = {Matou\v{s}ek, J and Skarnitzl, R. and Tihelka, D. and Macha\v{c}, P.},
 title = {Towards Linguistic Naturalness of Synthetic Speech},
 year = {2011},
 address = {San Francisco, USA},
 pages = {561-566},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2011},
 ISBN = {978-988-18210-9-6},
 ISSN = {2078-0958},
 url = {http://www.kky.zcu.cz/en/publications/MatousekJ_2011_TowardsLinguistic},
}