Close Copy Speech Synthesis for Speech Perception Testing

• Authors: Jolanta Bachan , Dafydd Gibbon
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The present study is concerned with developing a speech synthesis subcomponent for perception testing in the context of evaluating cochlear implants in children. We provide a detailed requirements analysis, and develop a strategy for maximally high quality speech synthesis using Close Copy Speech synthesis techniques with a diphone based speech synthesiser, MBROLA. The close copy concept used in this work defines close copy as a function from a pair of speech signal recording and a phonemic annotation aligned with the recording into the pronunciation specification interface of the speech synthesiser. The design procedure has three phases: Manual Close Copy Speech (MCCS) synthesis as a ?best case gold standard?, in which the function is implemented manually as a preliminary step; Automatic Close Copy Speech (ACCS) synthesis, in which the steps taken in manual transformation are emulated by software; finally, Parametric Close Copy Speech (PCCS) synthesis, in which prosodic parameters are modifiable while retaining the diphones. This contribution reports on the MCCS and ACCS synthesis phases.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Investigationes Linguisticae
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 13
• Pages: 9-24

Dates

published

2006-06-15

Contributors

author

Jolanta Bachan

• Adam Mickiewicz University ul. Międzychodzka 5, 60 -371 Poznań, Poland

author

Dafydd Gibbon

• Universität Bielefeld Postfach 100131, 33501 Bielefeld, German

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/il.2006.13.2