Reducing footprint of unit selection based text-to-speech system using compressed sensing and sparse representation

P Sharma, V Abrol, AK Sao - Computer Speech & Language, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, we have explored the framework of compressed sensing (CS) and sparse
representation (SR) to reduce the footprint of unit selection based speech synthesis (USS) …

A new unit selection optimisation algorithm for corpus-based TTS systems using the RBF-based data compression technique

M Rojc, I Mlakar - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A major drawback of corpus-based speech synthesis systems is the use of large acoustic
inventories, and currently one of the main challenges is the optimal representation of …

Reducing footprint of unit selection TTS system by removing linguistic segments with rarely selected units

M Gruber, J Matousek, D Tihelka… - 2014 12th International …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper is focused on reducing the size of speech corpora that are used in the unit-
selection-based TTS systems. The size of a speech corpus influences the system …

Phonetic Aspects of High Level of Naturalness in Speech Synthesis

V Evdokimova, P Skrelin, A Barabanov… - Speech and Computer …, 2016 - Springer
The paper is concerned with the phonetic aspects of speech synthesis of Russian vowels
with the use of a voice source signal. An original method of recording the glottal wave …

A Parametric Approach for Efficient Speech Storage, Flexible Synthesis and Voice Conversion

J Nurminen - 2013 - trepo.tuni.fi
During the past decades, many areas of speech processing have benefited from the vast
increases in the available memory sizes and processing power. For example, speech …