Improved time-frequency trajectory excitation modeling for a statistical parametric speech synthesis system

Eunwoo Song; Young Sun Joo; Hong Goo Kang

doi:10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178912

Improved time-frequency trajectory excitation modeling for a statistical parametric speech synthesis system

Eunwoo Song, Young Sun Joo, Hong Goo Kang

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Abstract

This paper proposes an improved time-frequency trajectory excitation (TFTE) modeling method for a statistical parametric speech synthesis system. The proposed approach overcomes the dimensional variation problem of the training process caused by the inherent nature of the pitch-dependent analysis paradigm. By reducing the redundancies of the parameters using predicted average block coefficients (PABC), the proposed algorithm efficiently models excitation, even if its dimension is varied. Objective and subjective test results verify that the proposed algorithm provides not only robustness to the training process but also naturalness to the synthesized speech.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2015 - Proceedings
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	4949-4953
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781467369978
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178912
Publication status	Published - 2015 Aug 4
Event	40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2015 - Brisbane, Australia Duration: 2014 Apr 19 → 2014 Apr 24

Publication series

Name	ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume	2015-August
ISSN (Print)	1520-6149

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Other	40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2015
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Brisbane
Period	14/4/19 → 14/4/24

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Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Song, E., Joo, Y. S., & Kang, H. G. (2015). Improved time-frequency trajectory excitation modeling for a statistical parametric speech synthesis system. In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2015 - Proceedings (pp. 4949-4953). [7178912] (ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings; Vol. 2015-August). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178912

Song, Eunwoo ; Joo, Young Sun ; Kang, Hong Goo. / Improved time-frequency trajectory excitation modeling for a statistical parametric speech synthesis system. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2015 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015. pp. 4949-4953 (ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings).

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Song, E, Joo, YS & Kang, HG 2015, Improved time-frequency trajectory excitation modeling for a statistical parametric speech synthesis system. in 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2015 - Proceedings., 7178912, ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, vol. 2015-August, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 4949-4953, 40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2015, Brisbane, Australia, 14/4/19. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178912

Improved time-frequency trajectory excitation modeling for a statistical parametric speech synthesis system. / Song, Eunwoo; Joo, Young Sun; Kang, Hong Goo.

2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2015 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015. p. 4949-4953 7178912 (ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings; Vol. 2015-August).

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Song E, Joo YS, Kang HG. Improved time-frequency trajectory excitation modeling for a statistical parametric speech synthesis system. In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2015 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2015. p. 4949-4953. 7178912. (ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178912

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