Naturalness Analysis of the Speech Synthesized by a TTS Card

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2016

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Tora, Hakan
Uslu, Baran

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Airframe and Powerplant Maintenance
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It is known that the performance of a developed text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system is assessed by subjective tests. These assessments are usually based on the intelligibility and naturalness of the synthesized speech. In this study, an investigation on relating these subjective test results, thus the naturalness of the synthesized speech, to which acoustic features is accomplished. Consequently the features which will increase the performance while synthesizing the speech are determined. Our work is focused especially on the pitch frequency and energy parameters.

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text-to-speech synthesis, naturalness, intelligibility, acoustic features, formant frequencies, spectrogram

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24th Signal Processing and Communication Application Conference (SIU) -- MAY 16-19, 2016 -- Zonguldak, TURKEY

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1741

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1744

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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14411/9151

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