Arabic HMM-based Speech Synthesis

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作者
Khalil, Krichi Mohamed [1 ]
Adnan, Cherif [1 ]
机构
[1] Sci Sci Fac Tunis, Signal Proc Lab, Sft 1060, Tunisia
来源
2013 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS (ICEESA) | 2013年
关键词
HMM; Speech Synthesis; Text to Speech; Arabic Language; Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis; Hidden Markov Model;
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中图分类号
TP31 [计算机软件];
学科分类号
081202 ; 0835 ;
摘要
this paper describes the Arabic system synthesis on hidden Markov models (HTS). Our developed synthesis system uses phonemes as HMM synthesis unit, Arabic database was developed for the first test. The main objective is to maintain the consolidated text coherence which is interpreted by concatenating HMM phoneme. In our experiments, spectral properties were represented by Mel cepstrum coefficients. For the waveform synthesis, a noise or pulse excited corresponding MLSA filter was utilized. Besides that basic setup, a high-quality analysis/synthesis system STRAIGHT was employed for more sophisticated speech representation. This method has several advantages. As it is parametric, it is possible to play on the HMM parameters, change the producer voice characteristics. The developed model improves the speech synthesis, naturalness and intelligibility quality in the Arabic language environment.
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页码:450 / 454
页数:5
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