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Tihelka, D. : Corpus-based Approach to Unit Selection Speech Unit Inventory Reduction in ARTIC TTS . Speech Processing, proceedings of 17th Czech - German Workshop, p. 160-167, Institute of Photonics and Electronics AS CR, Prague, 2007.

Abstract

The present paper examines the ways of reducing the size of large speech unit inventories used by the unit selection approach. It discusses the technique based on keeping candidates most frequently chosen by the selection module when synthesizing large text. Its suitability is validated by experiment, and the results are evaluated from the point of view of inventory size reduction and unit selection synthesis acceleration; the inventory size was approximatelly halved and speed was doubled while still keeping 90% of the most frequently used candidates for each unit.

Detail of publication

Title: Corpus-based Approach to Unit Selection Speech Unit Inventory Reduction in ARTIC TTS
Author: Tihelka, D.
Language: English
Date of publication: 19 Sep 2007
Year: 2007
Type of publication: Papers in proceedings of reviewed conferences
Book title: Speech Processing, proceedings of 17th Czech - German Workshop
Page: 160 - 167
ISBN: 978-80-86269-00-9
Publisher: Institute of Photonics and Electronics AS CR
Address: Prague
Date: 19 Sep 2007 - 21 Sep 2007
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Keywords

unit selection, speech inventory, candidate use frequency, size, speed optimalization

BibTeX

@INPROCEEDINGS{TihelkaD_2007_Corpus-basedApproach,
 author = {Tihelka, D.},
 title = {Corpus-based Approach to Unit Selection Speech Unit Inventory Reduction in ARTIC TTS},
 year = {2007},
 publisher = {Institute of Photonics and Electronics AS CR},
 address = {Prague},
 pages = {160-167},
 booktitle = {Speech Processing, proceedings of 17th Czech - German Workshop},
 ISBN = {978-80-86269-00-9},
 url = {http://www.kky.zcu.cz/en/publications/TihelkaD_2007_Corpus-basedApproach},
}