Quality of Synthetic Speech: Perceptual Dimensions, Influencing Factors, and Instrumental Assessment

✍ Scribed by Florian Hinterleitner (auth.)

Publisher: Springer Singapore
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 170
Series: T-Labs Series in Telecommunication Services
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book reviews research towards perceptual quality dimensions of synthetic speech, compares these findings with the state of the art, and derives a set of five universal perceptual quality dimensions for TTS signals. They are: (i) naturalness of voice, (ii) prosodic quality, (iii) fluency and intelligibility, (iv) absence of disturbances, and (v) calmness. Moreover, a test protocol for the efficient indentification of those dimensions in a listening test is introduced. Furthermore, several factors influencing these dimensions are examined. In addition, different techniques for the instrumental quality assessment of TTS signals are introduced, reviewed and tested. Finally, the requirements for the integration of an instrumental quality measure into a concatenative TTS system are examined.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Speech Synthesis....Pages 5-18
Auditory and Instrumental Quality Evaluation Metrics....Pages 19-36
Perceptual Quality Dimensions....Pages 37-67
Influencing Factors on Perceptual Quality....Pages 69-100
Instrumental Quality Assessment....Pages 101-124
Requirements for the Integration of an Instrumental Quality Measure into a Concatenative TTS System....Pages 125-138
Conclusions and Future Work....Pages 139-145
Back Matter....Pages 147-157

✦ Subjects

Signal, Image and Speech Processing;User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction

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