Mihelic F, Vesnicer B, Zibert J, Nöth E (2008)
Publication Status: Published
Publication Type: Conference contribution
Publication year: 2008
Publisher: Springer-verlag
Book Volume: 5246
Pages Range: 419-426
We present an objective-evaluation method of the prosody modeling in an HMM-based Slovene speech-synthesis system. Method is based on the results of the automatic recognition of syntactic-prosodic boundary positions and accented words in the synthetic speech. We have shown that the recognition results represent a close match with the prosodic notations, labeled by the human expert on the natural-speech counterpart that was used to train the speech-synthesis system. The recognition rate of the prosodic events is proposed as an objective evaluation measure for the quality of the prosodic modeling in the speech-synthesis system. The results of the proposed evaluation method are also in accordance with previous subjective-listening assesment evaluations, where high scores for the naturalness for such a type of speech synthesis were observed.
APA:
Mihelic, F., Vesnicer, B., Zibert, J., & Nöth, E. (2008). Prosodic Events Recognition in Evaluation of Speech-Synthesis System Performance. (pp. 419-426). Springer-verlag.
MLA:
Mihelic, France, et al. "Prosodic Events Recognition in Evaluation of Speech-Synthesis System Performance." Springer-verlag, 2008. 419-426.
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