TY  - BOOK
AB  - This paper describes work in progress concerning the ad-
equate modeling of fast speech in unit selection speech synthesis systems, mostly having in mind blind and visually impaired users. Initially, a survey of the main characteristics of fast speech will be given. Subsequently, strategies for fast speech production will be discussed. Certain requirements concerning the ability of a speaker of a fast speech unit selection inventory are drawn. The following section deals with a perception study where a selected speaker's ability to speak fast is investigated. To conclude, a preliminary perceptual analysis of the recordings for the speech synthesis corpus is presented.

Index Terms: speech synthesis, unit selection, fast speech
DA  - 2009
LA  - eng
PY  - 2009
TI  - Assessing a speaker for fast speech in unit selection speech synthesis
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-19170503
Y2  - 2024-11-22T07:57:12
ER  -