Το έργο με τίτλο Global variance in speech synthesis with linear dynamical models από τον/τους δημιουργό/ούς Tsiaras Vasileios, Maia Ranniery S., Diakoloukas Vasilis, Stylianou, Yannis, Digalakis Vasilis διατίθεται με την άδεια Creative Commons Αναφορά Δημιουργού 4.0 Διεθνές
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V. Tsiaras, R. Maia, V. Diakoloukas, Y. Stylianou and V. Digalakis, "Global variance in speech synthesis with linear dynamical models," IEEE Signal Proc. Let., vol. 23, no. 8, pp. 1057-1061, Aug. 2016. doi: 10.1109/LSP.2016.2580672
https://doi.org/10.1109/LSP.2016.2580672
Linear Dynamical Models (LDMs) have been used in speech synthesis recently as an alternative to hidden Markov models (HMMs). Among the advantages of LDMs are the ability to capture the dynamics of speech and the achievement of synthesized speech quality similar to HMM-based speech systems on a smaller footprint. However, such as in the HMM case, LDMs produce over-smoothed trajectories of speech parameters, resulting in muffled quality of synthetic speech. Inspired by a similar problem found in HMM-based speech synthesis, where the naturalness of the synthesized speech is greatly improved when the global variance (GV) is compensated, this paper proposes a novel speech parameter generation algorithm that considers GV in LDM-based speech synthesis. Experimental results show that the application of GV during parameter generation significantly improves speech quality.