To assess the effectiveness of a new intonation model a subjec- tive evaluation is conducted: usually either a pair test or a mean opinion score (MOS) test. In ...
Speech intonation for TTS: Study on evaluation methodology
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Jul 23, 2014 · The aim of this paper is to employ a complex empirical methodology to explore characteristics of intonation units in utterances. In the first ...
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In this study, we created four Dutch text-to-speech (TTS) models from different amounts of training material and evaluated the models in terms of voice ...
This study evaluates the voice quality of a TTS system in comparison with a human voice, and examines its pedagogical potential for use in an English as a ...
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For the purpose of language learning, the generated voices should be clear with natural pronunciation and intonation. Additional voice char- acteristics could ...
Seven participants stated that TTS should be used for all levels as long as the human voice is not excluded from the learning process. For two students, however ...
[PDF] bringing tts software into the classroom: the effect of using text
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The study indicated that word stress, word intonation, pitch contour, and fluency have significantly improved as a result of using TTS software. Keywords: ...
As it is very hard to evaluate prosody model in an objective way, a perceptual comparison method is adopted in this work to evaluate prosody model.
Mar 14, 2023 · This paper proposes QI-TTS, a multi-style transfer model, which can better transfer emotion and intonation from ref- erence audio and achieve ...