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  New method for delexicalization and its application to prosodic tagging for text-to-speech synthesis

Vainio, M., Suni, A., Raitio, T., Nurminen, J., Järvikivi, J., & Alku, P. (2009). New method for delexicalization and its application to prosodic tagging for text-to-speech synthesis. In Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2009) (pp. 1703-1706).

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Item Permalink: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0013-241D-F Version Permalink: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0013-2421-3
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Vainio, Martti1, Author
Suni, Antti1, Author
Raitio, Tuomo2, Author
Nurminen, Jani3, Author
Järvikivi, Juhani4, 5, Author           
Alku, Paavo2, Author
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1Department of Speech Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, ou_persistent22              
2Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics, Helsinki University of Technology, ou_persistent22              
3Nokia Devices R&D, Tampere, Finland, ou_persistent22              
4Language Acquisition Group, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, Nijmegen, NL, ou_55202              
5Information Structure in Language Acquisition, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, Nijmegen, NL, ou_55212              

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Free keywords: prosody, delexicalization, speech synthesis, voice quality
 Abstract: This paper describes a new flexible delexicalization method based on glottal excited parametric speech synthesis scheme. The system utilizes inverse filtered glottal flow and all-pole modelling of the vocal tract. The method provides a possibility to retain and manipulate all relevant prosodic features of any kind of speech. Most importantly, the features include voice quality, which has not been properly modeled in earlier delexicalization methods. The functionality of the new method was tested in a prosodic tagging experiment aimed at providing word prominence data for a text-to-speech synthesis system. The experiment confirmed the usefulness of the method and further corroborated earlier evidence that linguistic factors influence the perception of prosodic prominence.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2009-04-162009
 Publication Status: Issued
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Title: Interspeech 2009: 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association
Place of Event: Brighton
Start-/End Date: 2009-09-06 - 2009-09-10

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Title: Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2009)
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