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SPEECH SYNTHESIS -- Austalk
SPEECH SYNTHESIS--AusTalk Zhijie ShaoMaster of Computer ScienceSupervisor: Trent Lewis
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Project Procedure
MARY (Modular Architecture for Research on speech sYnthesis) is the German text-to-speech system.MARY
Voice Import Tools being provided by MARY contains a set of Voice components and helps users to build new voices under the MARY Environment.MARYVoice Import Tool
Unit Selection Synthesis
HMM-Based Synthesis
HMM-based Synthesis
HMM: Hidden Markov model
An introduction to HMM-based speech Synthesis by Junichi YamagishiBlizzard Data
Blizzard Data The speaker is known as Nancy and is a native speaker of US English, professional female voice talent, voice coach, and singer. 16.6 hours of data was made available Unit Selection Voice:HMM-based Voice:
Unit Selection Voice:
Hi, I am Jacky, welcome to my presentation.Hi, Jacky again, welcome to my presentation.AusTalkData
7. Sentences (8mns) A set of 59 sentences is presented one at a time on the screen. from BigASC-RA-ManualComparison
Blizzard 59 VS AusTalk 59SynthesisBlizzard Unit Selection: