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Tihelka, D : Towards Automatic Measure of Similarity for Use in Unit Selection . ICSP 2008, proceedings of 9th International Conference on Signal Processing, p. 637-642, Beijing, China, 2008.

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Abstract

The paper focuses on the unit selection approach to speech synthesis, discussing drawbacks mainly related to the current handling of target features that basically results in the need of huge corpora. In the paper there are outlined possible solutions based on measuring (dis)similarity among prosodic patterns. In the initial experiment, trying to verify the feasibility of the proposed solution, the (dis)similarity of acoustic signal measured by different techniques is correlated to perceived similarity estimate obtained from a large-scale listening test.

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Title: Towards Automatic Measure of Similarity for Use in Unit Selection
Author: Tihelka, D
Language: Czech
Year: 2008
Type of publication: Papers in proceedings of reviewed conferences
Book title: ICSP 2008, proceedings of 9th International Conference on Signal Processing
Page: 637 - 642
ISBN: 978-1-4244-2178-7
Address: Beijing, China
2008-11-10 11:20:51 / 2008-11-12 21:42:52 /

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speech synthesis, unit selection, target features, prosodic patterns, perceived similarity, signal similarity, multidimensional scaling

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@INPROCEEDINGS{TihelkaD_2008_TowardsAutomatic,
 author = {Tihelka, D},
 title = {Towards Automatic Measure of Similarity for Use in Unit Selection},
 year = {2008},
 address = {Beijing, China},
 pages = {637-642},
 booktitle = {ICSP 2008, proceedings of 9th International Conference on Signal Processing},
 ISBN = {978-1-4244-2178-7},
 url = {http://www.kky.zcu.cz/en/publications/TihelkaD_2008_TowardsAutomatic},
}