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  • Title
    Assessing a speaker for fast speech in unit selection speech synthesis
  • Author
    Moers, Donata ; Wagner, Petra
  • Published
    2009
  • Language
    English
  • Document type
    Conference Proceedings
  • URN
    urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-19170503 
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  • This paper describes work in progress concerning the ad-
    equate modeling of fast speech in unit selection speech synthesis systems, mostly having in mind blind and visually impaired users. Initially, a survey of the main characteristics of fast speech will be given. Subsequently, strategies for fast speech production will be discussed. Certain requirements concerning the ability of a speaker of a fast speech unit selection inventory are drawn. The following section deals with a perception study where a selected speaker's ability to speak fast is investigated. To conclude, a preliminary perceptual analysis of the recordings for the speech synthesis corpus is presented.

    Index Terms: speech synthesis, unit selection, fast speech
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