Fifth ISCA ITRW on Speech Synthesis June 14-16, 2004 Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Creating a Database of Speech in Noise for Unit Selection Synthesis

Brian Langner, Alan W. Black

Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

This paper describes CMU SIN, a new database of speech in noise that can be used for unit selection speech synthesis. We describe a process that can be used to elicit speech in noise and how to use that as part of building a synthetic voice that speaks in noise. Details of the database we constructed, as well as some preliminary analysis and future goals of this work, are also included.

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Bibliographic reference.  Langner, Brian / Black, Alan W. (2004): "Creating a database of speech in noise for unit selection synthesis", In SSW5-2004, 229-230.