Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference (한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집)
- 2011.07a
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- Pages.89-91
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- 2011
An HMM-based Korean TTS synthesis system using phrase information
운율 경계 정보를 이용한 HMM 기반의 한국어 음성합성 시스템
- Joo, Young-Seon (Yonsei University) ;
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Jung, Chi-Sang
(Yonsei University) ;
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Kang, Hong-Goo
(Yonsei University)
- Published : 2011.07.07
Abstract
In this paper, phrase boundaries in sentence are predicted and a phrase break information is applied to an HMM-based Korean Text-to-Speech synthesis system. Synthesis with phrase break information increases a naturalness of the synthetic speech and an understanding of sentences. To predict these phrase boundaries, context-dependent information like forward/backward POS(Part-of-Speech) of eojeol, a position of eojeol in a sentence, length of eojeol, and presence or absence of punctuation marks are used. The experimental results show that the naturalness of synthetic speech with phrase break information increases.
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