| Título: | Familiar talker advantages in formant-based and concatenative synthetic speech |
| Autores: | Jones, Jacqueline; Dept. of Linguistics, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, AB T2N 1N4, Canada |
| Fecha: | 2012-09-01 |
| Publicador: | Canadian Acoustical Association / Association canadienne d'acoustique |
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Conference Proceedings Actes de congrès |
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Speech synthesis American English; Bisyllabic words; Harvard; Synthetic speech; Text to speech; Training phase |
| Descripción: | Access to synthetic speech technology has never been easier than it is today. Home computers come bundled with text-to-speech software, as do some eReaders and smart phones. The technology has come a long way since Stephen Hawking's recognizable DECTaIk voice in the late 1980s. Four sets of stimuli were created for this research. The threshold stimuli consisted of 70 pre-recorded spondees ? bisyllabic words with equal stress on both syllables - produced by a native speaker of American English. Training, Testing, and Post-Test stimuli consisted of pie- recorded sets of Harvard Sentences produced by synthetic speech. The training phase consisted of 60 sentences produced by a synthetic speaker. Groups 1 and 2 trained with the concatenative voice Eric, and groups 3 and 4 trained with formant voice Wheatley. The participants listened to the sentence a single time and were asked to transcribe what they heard. |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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