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A hierarchical Viterbi algorithm for mandarin hybrid speech synthesis system | |
Zhang, Ran; Wen, Zhengqi; Tao, Jianhua; Li, Ya; Liu, Bing; Lou, Xiaoyan; Ran Zhang | |
2014 | |
会议名称 | the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH |
会议录名称 | Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH) |
页码 | 795-799 |
会议日期 | 2014 |
会议地点 | Florance |
摘要 |
The hybrid speech synthesis system, which combines the
hidden Markov model and unit selection method, has become
an additional main stream in state-of-the-art TTS systems.
However, traditional Viterbi algorithm is based on global
minimization of a cost function and the procedure can end up
selecting some poor-quality units with larger local errors,
which can hardly be tolerated by the listeners. In Mandarin
and many other languages, the naturalness of the region of
consecutive voiced speech segments (CVS) is more essential
to the overall quality of the synthetic speech. Consequently, in
this paper, we proposed to use a hierarchical Viterbi algorithm
which involves two rounds of Viterbi search: one is for the
sub-paths in the CVS regions; the other is for the utterance
path connecting all the sub-paths. In the proposed technique,
we defined CVS Region as a region which is formed by two or
more voiced phones, and whose observation of pitch has a
continuous value. Subjective evaluations suggest that the use
of hierarchical Viterbi algorithm in the Mandarin hybrid
speech synthesis system outperforms the use of traditional
algorithm in both the naturalness and speech quality of
synthetic speech. |
关键词 | Hierarchical Viterbi Algorithm Unit Selection Hidden Markov Models Hybrid Tts Cvs Region |
收录类别 | EI |
文献类型 | 会议论文 |
条目标识符 | http://ir.ia.ac.cn/handle/173211/41186 |
专题 | 多模态人工智能系统全国重点实验室_智能交互 |
通讯作者 | Ran Zhang |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Zhang, Ran,Wen, Zhengqi,Tao, Jianhua,et al. A hierarchical Viterbi algorithm for mandarin hybrid speech synthesis system[C],2014:795-799. |
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