Speech Corpus Preparation for Voice Banking of Laryngectomised Patients

This paper focuses on voice banking and creating personalised speech synthesis of laryngectomised patients who lose their voice after this radical surgery. Specific aspects of voice banking are discussed in the paper, including a description of the adjustments of the generic methods. The main attent...

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Published inText, Speech, and Dialogue pp. 282 - 290
Main Authors Jůzová, Markéta, Romportl, Jan, Tihelka, Daniel
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham Springer International Publishing
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
Corpus recording
Greedy algorithm
Personalised speech synthesis
Speech unit
Text corpus building
Voice banking
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Summary:This paper focuses on voice banking and creating personalised speech synthesis of laryngectomised patients who lose their voice after this radical surgery. Specific aspects of voice banking are discussed in the paper, including a description of the adjustments of the generic methods. The main attention is paid to the speech corpus building since the quality of synthesised speech depends a lot on the speech units variability and the number of their occurrences. Also some statistics and characteristics of the first experimental voices are presented and the possibility of using different speech synthesis methods depending on the voice quality and speech corpus size is pointed out.
Bibliography:The research leading to these results has received funding from the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2009-2014 and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports under Project Contract no. MSMT-28477/2014, Project no. 7F14236 (HCENAT). This work was also supported by the grant of the University of West Bohemia, project No. SGS-2013-032.
ISBN:3319240323
9783319240329
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-24033-6_32