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The Nitech-NAIST HMM-Based Speech Synthesis System for the Blizzard Challenge 2006
Heiga ZEN Tomoki TODA Keiichi TOKUDA
Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Vol.E91-D
No.6
pp.1764-1773 Publication Date: 2008/06/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1361
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e91-d.6.1764
Print ISSN: 0916-8532 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Speech and Hearing Keyword: statistical parametric speech synthesis, Blizzard Challenge 2006, MGC-LSP, MLLT, full covariance GV pdf,
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Summary:
We describe a statistical parametric speech synthesis system developed by a joint group from the Nagoya Institute of Technology (Nitech) and the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) for the annual open evaluation of text-to-speech synthesis systems named Blizzard Challenge 2006. To improve our 2005 system (Nitech-HTS 2005), we investigated new features such as mel-generalized cepstrum-based line spectral pairs (MGC-LSPs), maximum likelihood linear transform (MLLT), and a full covariance global variance (GV) probability density function (pdf). A combination of mel-cepstral coefficients, MLLT, and full covariance GV pdf scored highest in subjective listening tests, and the 2006 system performed significantly better than the 2005 system. The Blizzard Challenge 2006 evaluations show that Nitech-NAIST-HTS 2006 is competitive even when working with relatively large speech databases.
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