%Aigaion2 BibTeX export from Idiap Publications %Sunday 22 December 2024 02:15:51 AM @INPROCEEDINGS{vepa_icslp04_p, author = {Vepa, Jithendra and King, Simon}, projects = {Idiap}, title = {Subjective Evaluation of Join Cost Functions Used in Unit Selection Speech Synthesis}, booktitle = {Proceedings of ICSLP}, year = {2004}, address = {South Korea}, note = {IDIAP-RR 04-26}, crossref = {vepa_icslp04}, abstract = {In our previous papers, we have proposed join cost functions derived from spectral distances, which have good correlations with perceptual scores obtained for a range of concatenation discontinuities. To further validate their ability to predict concatenation discontinuities, we have chosen the best three spectral distances and evaluated them subjectively in a listening test. The unit sequences for synthesis stimuli are obtained from a state-of-the-art unit selection text-to-speech system: rVoice from Rhetorical Systems Ltd. In this paper, we report listeners' preferences for each of the three join cost functions.}, pdf = {https://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/reports/2004/rr04-26.pdf}, postscript = {ftp://ftp.idiap.ch/pub/reports/2004/rr04-26.ps.gz}, ipdmembership={speech}, } crossreferenced publications: @TECHREPORT{vepa_icslp04, author = {Vepa, Jithendra and King, Simon}, projects = {Idiap}, title = {Subjective Evaluation of Join Cost Functions Used in Unit Selection Speech Synthesis}, type = {Idiap-RR}, number = {Idiap-RR-26-2004}, year = {2004}, institution = {IDIAP}, abstract = {In our previous papers, we have proposed join cost functions derived from spectral distances, which have good correlations with perceptual scores obtained for a range of concatenation discontinuities. To further validate their ability to predict concatenation discontinuities, we have chosen the best three spectral distances and evaluated them subjectively in a listening test. The unit sequences for synthesis stimuli are obtained from a state-of-the-art unit selection text-to-speech system: rVoice from Rhetorical Systems Ltd. In this paper, we report listeners' preferences for each of the three join cost functions.}, pdf = {https://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/reports/2004/rr04-26.pdf}, postscript = {ftp://ftp.idiap.ch/pub/reports/2004/rr04-26.ps.gz}, ipdmembership={speech}, }