CONF vepa_icslp04_p/IDIAP Subjective Evaluation of Join Cost Functions Used in Unit Selection Speech Synthesis Vepa, Jithendra King, Simon EXTERNAL http://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/reports/2004/rr04-26.pdf PUBLIC http://publications.idiap.ch/index.php/publications/showcite/vepa_icslp04 Related documents Proceedings of ICSLP 2004 South Korea IDIAP-RR 04-26 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. REPORT vepa_icslp04/IDIAP Subjective Evaluation of Join Cost Functions Used in Unit Selection Speech Synthesis Vepa, Jithendra King, Simon EXTERNAL http://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/reports/2004/rr04-26.pdf PUBLIC Idiap-RR-26-2004 2004 IDIAP 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.