Quality of synthetic speech : perceptual dimensions, influencing factors, and instrumental assessment

• Main Author: Hinterleitner, Florian
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer, [2017]
• Series: T-labs series in telecommunication services.
• Subjects: Speech synthesis.; Speech processing systems.; Text-to-speech software.; Telecommunication.; elektronické knihy; electronic books

This book reviews research towards perceptual quality dimensions of synthetic speech, compares these findings with the state of the art, and derives a set of five universal perceptual quality dimensions for TTS signals. They are: (i) naturalness of voice, (ii) prosodic quality, (iii) fluency and int...