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HMM Training Strategy for Incremental Speech Synthesis

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Incremental speech synthesis aims at delivering the synthetic voice while the sentence is still being typed. One of the main challenges is the online estimation of the target prosody from a partial knowledge of the sentence's syntactic structure. In the context of HMM-based speech synthesis, this typically results in missing segmental and suprasegmental features, which describe the linguistic context of each phoneme. This study describes a voice training procedure which integrates explicitly a potential uncertainty on some contextual features. The proposed technique is compared to a baseline approach (previously published), which consists in substituting a missing contextual feature by a default value calculated on the training set. Both techniques were implemented in a HMM-based Text-To-Speech system for French, and compared using objective and perceptual measurements. Experimental results show that the proposed strategy outperforms the baseline technique for this language.
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hal-01228889 , version 1 (14-11-2015)

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Maël Pouget, Thomas Hueber, Gérard Bailly, Timo Baumann. HMM Training Strategy for Incremental Speech Synthesis. Interspeech 2015 - 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, ISCA, Sep 2015, Dresden, Germany. pp.1201-1205. ⟨hal-01228889⟩
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