TY - GEN
T1 - A technique for controlling voice quality of synthetic speech using multiple regression HSMM
AU - Tachibana, Makoto
AU - Nose, Takashi
AU - Yamagishi, Junichi
AU - Kobayashi, Takao
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - This paper describes a technique for controlling voice quality of synthetic speech using multiple regression hidden semi-Markov model (HSMM). In the technique, we assume that the mean vectors of output and state duration distribution of HSMM are modeled by multiple regression with a parameter vector called voice quality control vector. We first choose three features for controlling voice qualities, that is, "smooth voice - nonsmooth voice," "warm - cold," "high-pitched - low-pitched," and then we attempt to control voice quality of synthetic speech for these features. From the results of several subjective tests, we show that the proposed technique can change these features of voice quality intuitively.
AB - This paper describes a technique for controlling voice quality of synthetic speech using multiple regression hidden semi-Markov model (HSMM). In the technique, we assume that the mean vectors of output and state duration distribution of HSMM are modeled by multiple regression with a parameter vector called voice quality control vector. We first choose three features for controlling voice qualities, that is, "smooth voice - nonsmooth voice," "warm - cold," "high-pitched - low-pitched," and then we attempt to control voice quality of synthetic speech for these features. From the results of several subjective tests, we show that the proposed technique can change these features of voice quality intuitively.
KW - HMM-based speech synthesis
KW - HSMM
KW - Multiple regression HMM
KW - Voice quality control
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:44949155552
SN - 9781604234497
T3 - INTERSPEECH 2006 and 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH 2006 - ICSLP
SP - 2438
EP - 2441
BT - INTERSPEECH 2006 and 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH 2006 - ICSLP
PB - International Speech Communication Association
T2 - INTERSPEECH 2006 and 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH 2006 - ICSLP
Y2 - 17 September 2006 through 21 September 2006
ER -