• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.103-110
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• 2005

음성 데이터베이스는 TTS 시스템에서 가장 중요한 요소 중의 하나이다. 특히, 내장형 TTS 시스템에서는 서버형 TTS 시스템에서보다 좀 더 작은 데이터베이스를 필요로 한다. 이러한 이유로, 음성합성 데이터의 압축과 통계적 축소과정의 비중은 내장형 TTS 시스템에서 아주 중요한 항목이라고 말할 수 있다. 그러나 이러한 압축과 통계적 축소과정은 합성음질의 저하를 유발시킨다. 본 논문에서는 고품질 내장형 TTS 시스템에서의 데이터 구축방법을 제안하며, MOS 테스트를 통한 합성음질을 검증한다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.39-48
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• 2018

A typical statistical parametric speech synthesis (text-to-speech, TTS) system consists of separate modules, such as a text analysis module, an acoustic modeling module, and a speech synthesis module. This causes two problems: 1) expert knowledge of each module is required, and 2) errors generated in each module accumulate passing through each module. An end-to-end TTS system could avoid such problems by synthesizing voice signals directly from an input string. In this study, we implemented an end-to-end Korean TTS system using Google's Tacotron, which is an end-to-end TTS system based on a sequence-to-sequence model with attention mechanism. We used 4392 utterances spoken by a Korean female speaker, an amount that corresponds to 37% of the dataset Google used for training Tacotron. Our system obtained mean opinion score (MOS) 2.98 and degradation mean opinion score (DMOS) 3.25. We will discuss the factors which affected training of the system. Experiments demonstrate that the post-processing network needs to be designed considering output language and input characters and that according to the amount of training data, the maximum value of n for n-grams modeled by the encoder should be small enough.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제50호
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• pp.41-50
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• 2004

Recently, there has been considerable progress in the natural language processing and digital signal processing components and this progress has led to the improved synthetic speech qualify of many commercial TTS systems. But there still remain many obstacles to overcome for the practical application of TTS. To resolve the problems, the cooperative research among the related areas is highly required and a common Korean TTS platform is essential to promote these activities. This platform offers a general framework for building Korean speech synthesis systems and a full C/C++ source for modules supports to implement and test his own algorithm. In this paper we described the aspect of a Korean TTS platform to be developed and a developing plan.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1999년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.699-707
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• 1999

It cannot be argued that speech is the most natural interfacing tool between men and machines. In order to realize acceptable speech interfaces, highly advanced speech recognizers and synthesizers are inevitable. Text-to-Speech(TTS) technology has been attracting a lot of interest among speech engineers because of its own benefits. Namely, the possible application areas of talking computers, emergency alarming systems in speech, speech output devices fur speech-impaired, and so on. Hence, many researchers have made significant progresses in the speech synthesis techniques in the sense of their own languages and as a result, the quality of currently available speech synthesizers are believed to be acceptable to normal users. These are partly why the MPEG group had decided to include the TTS technology as one of its MPEG-4 functionalities. ETRI has made major contributions to the current MPEG-4 TTS among various MPEG-4 functionalities. They are; 1) use of original prosody for synthesized speech output, 2) trick mode functions fer general users without breaking synthesized speech prosody, 3) interoperability with Facial Animation(FA) tools, and 4) dubbing a moving/animated picture with lib-shape pattern information.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.67-76
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• 2024

최근 음성합성(text-to-speech, TTS) 기술의 발전은 합성음의 음질을 크게 향상하였으며, 사람의 음성에 가까운 합성음을 생성할 수 있는 수준에 이르렀다. 특히, 다양한 음성 특성과 개인화된 음성을 제공하는 TTS 모델은 AI(artificial intelligence) 튜터, 광고, 비디오 더빙과 같은 분야에서 널리 활용되고 있다. 따라서 본 논문은 훈련 중 보지 않은 화자의 발화를 사용하여 음성을 합성함으로써 음향적 다양성을 보장하고 개인화된 음성을 제공하는 원샷 다화자 음성합성 시스템을 제안했다. 이 제안 모델은 FastSpeech2 음향 모델과 HiFi-GAN 보코더로 구성된 TTS 모델에 RawNet3 기반 화자 인코더를 결합한 구조이다. 화자 인코더는 목표 음성에서 화자의 음색이 담긴 임베딩을 추출하는 역할을 한다. 본 논문에서는 영어 원샷 다화자 음성합성 모델뿐만 아니라 한국어 원샷 다화자 음성합성 모델도 구현하였다. 제안한 모델로 합성한 음성의 자연성과 화자 유사도를 평가하기 위해 객관적인 평가 지표와 주관적인 평가 지표를 사용하였다. 주관적 평가에서, 제안한 한국어 원샷 다화자 음성합성 모델의 NMOS(naturalness mean opinion score)는 3.36점이고 SMOS(similarity MOS)는 3.16점이었다. 객관적 평가에서, 제안한 영어 원샷 다화자 음성합성 모델과 한국어 원샷 다화자 음성합성 모델의 P-MOS(prediction MOS)는 각각 2.54점과 3.74점이었다. 이러한 결과는 제안 모델이 화자 유사도와 자연성 두 측면 모두에서 비교 모델들보다 성능이 향상되었음을 의미한다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제1권4호
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• pp.105-109
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• 2009

This thesis describes the method for well voice announcement using the TTS(Text-To-Speech) technology in the shop music broadcasting service. Offering a high quality TTS sound service for each shop requires a great expense. According to a report on the architectural acoustics the room acoustic indexes such as reverberation time and early decay time are closely connected with a subjective awareness about acoustics. By using the result the customers will be able to recognize better the voice announcement by applying sound effect to speech files made by TTS. The result of an aural comprehension examination has shown better about almost all of the parameters by applying reverb effect to TTS sound.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제26권12호
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• pp.105-110
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 STT(Speech-to-Text), TTS(Text-to-Speech) API와 가속도 센서 기반의 청각 장애인의 의사소통을 도와주는 안드로이드 모바일 애플리케이션을 설계하고 구현한다. 이 애플리케이션은 청각 장애인의 대화 상대가 말하는 것을 마이크로 녹음하고 STT API를 이용하여 텍스트로 변환하여 청각 장애인에게 보여주는 기능을 제공한다. 또한, TTS API를 이용하여 청각 장애인이 문자를 입력하면 음성으로 변환하여 대화 상대에게 들려준다. 청각 장애인이 스마트폰을 흔들면 이 애플리케이션이 실행하도록 가속도 센서 기반의 백그라운드 서비스 기능을 제공한다. 본 논문에서 구현한 애플리케이션은 청각 장애인들이 다른 사람과 의사소통을 할 때 영상통화로 수화를 이용하지 않고 쉽게 대화할 수 있는 기능을 제공한다.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2009년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.239-240
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• 2009

We live in a flat world in which globalization fosters communication, travel, and trade among more than 150 countries and thousands of languages. To surmount the barriers among these languages, translation is required; Speech-to-Speech translation will automate the process. Thanks to recent advances in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Machine Translation (MT), and Text-to-Speech (TTS), one can now utilize a system to translate a speech of source language to a speech of target language and vice versa in affordable manner. The three phase process establishes that the source speech be transcribed into a (set of) text of the source language (ASR) before the source text is translated into the target text (MT). Finally, the target speech is synthesized from the target text (TTS).

• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국음향학회 1994년도 FIFTH WESTERN PACIFIC REGIONAL ACOUSTICS CONFERENCE SEOUL KOREA
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• pp.937-942
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• 1994

Text-to-Speech(TTS) conversion system can convert any words or sentences into speech. To synthesize the speech like human beings do, careful prosody control including intonation, duration, accent, and pause is required. It helps listeners to understand the speech clearly and makes the speech sound more natural. In this paper, a prosody control scheme which makes use of the information of the function word is proposed. Among many factors of prosody, intonation, duration, and pause are closely related to syntactic structure, and their relations have been formalized and embodied in TTS. To evaluate the synthesized speech with the proposed prosody control, one of the subjective evaluation methods-MOS(Mean Opinion Score) method has been used. Synthesized speech has been tested on 10 listeners and each listener scored the speech between 1 and 5. Through the evaluation experiments, it is observed that the proposed prosody control helps TTS system synthesize the more natural speech.

• 음성과학
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.169-178
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• 2007

This thesis describes the development of a service system for small-sized shops which support not only music broadcasting, but editing and generating voice announcement using the TTS(Text-To-Speech) technology. The system has been developed based on web environments with an easy access whenever and wherever it is needed. The system is able to control the sound using silverlight media player based on the ASP .NET 2.0 technology without any additional application software. Use of the Ajax control allows for multiple users to get the maximum load when needed. TTS is built in the server side so that the service can be provided without user's computer. Due to convenience and usefulness of the system, the business sector can provide better service to many shops. Further additional functions such as statistical analysis will undoubtedly help shop management provide desirable services.