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MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 77, 2016
2016 3rd International Conference on Mechanics and Mechatronics Research (ICMMR 2016)
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| Article Number | 04003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Computer Aided Technology | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/20167704003 | |
| Published online | 03 October 2016 | |
Rule-Based Storytelling Text-to-Speech (TTS) Synthesis
1 Digital Image, Audio and Speech Technology, Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA, 40450 Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia
2 Academy of Languages Studies, Universiti Teknologi MARA, 40450 Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia
In recent years, various real life applications such as talking books, gadgets and humanoid robots have drawn the attention to pursue research in the area of expressive speech synthesis. Speech synthesis is widely used in various applications. However, there is a growing need for an expressive speech synthesis especially for communication and robotic. In this paper, global and local rule are developed to convert neutral to storytelling style speech for the Malay language. In order to generate rules, modification of prosodic parameters such as pitch, intensity, duration, tempo and pauses are considered. Modification of prosodic parameters is examined by performing prosodic analysis on a story collected from an experienced female and male storyteller. The global and local rule is applied in sentence level and synthesized using HNM. Subjective tests are conducted to evaluate the synthesized storytelling speech quality of both rules based on naturalness, intelligibility, and similarity to the original storytelling speech. The results showed that global rule give a better result than local rule
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