Optimisation of Neural Network Topology and Input Parameters for Prosody Modelling of Synthetic Speech

0404723 - UIVT-O 20030204 RIV GB eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Šebesta, Václav - Tučková, J.
Optimisation of Neural Network Topology and Input Parameters for Prosody Modelling of Synthetic Speech.
Recent Advances in Soft Computing. Nottingham: Nottingham Trent University, 2002 - (Lotfi, A.; Garibaldi, J.; John, R.), s. 31-36. ISBN 1-84233-0764.
[RASC 2002. International Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing /4./. Nottingham (GB), 12.12.2002-13.12.2002]
R&D Projects: GA ČR GA102/02/0124
Institutional research plan: AV0Z1030915
Keywords : feature selection * text-to-speech processing * prosody modelling * speech synthesis * neural network utilization
Subject RIV: BB - Applied Statistics, Operational Research

We try to investigate methods for extracting knowledge from existing continuous speech databases for optimisation of neural network topology to improve the generalization ability of ANN. The ANN for the modelling of fundamental frequency and duration of a speech unit for a Text-to-Speech synthesis are trained by natural speech. The principle of synthesizer is based on the concatenation of speech units. We also use speech unit segmentation of a text for prosody modelling.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0124961