When will synthetic speech sound human: Role of rules and data

Jan Van Santen, Michael Macon, Andrew Cronk, Paul Hosom, Alexander Kain, Vincent Pagel, Johan Wouters

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Abstract

Text-to-speech synthesis research has moved away from building general purpose systems based on an understanding of human language and speech production towards building systems based on statistical algorithms applied to large text and speech corpora, and, recently, towards building such systems for specific domains. Despite substantial progress, the overall quality of even the best systems is often still inadequate for broad user acceptance in applications that cannot also be handled with simple phrase splicing. This tutorial paper analyzes which problems must be addressed to achieve the goal of generating naturalsounding speech in limited domains in a cost-effective way, and the roles of data and rules as we work towards solutions.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000
PublisherInternational Speech Communication Association
ISBN (Electronic)7801501144, 9787801501141
StatePublished - 2000
Event6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000 - Beijing, China
Duration: Oct 16 2000Oct 20 2000

Publication series

Name6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000

Other

Other6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period10/16/0010/20/00

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Linguistics and Language
  • Language and Linguistics

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