Sixth ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis Bonn, Germany August 22-24, 2007

Optimization of Polish Segmental Duration Prediction with CART

Katarzyna Klessa (1), Marcin Szymanski (2), Stefan Breuer (3), Grazyna Demenko (1)

(1) Institute of Linguistics, Dept. of Phonetics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
(2) Poznan University of Technology, Poland
(3) Institute of Communication Sciences, University of Bonn, Germany

This paper describes results of the investigation of Polish segmental duration for the purpose of speech synthesis. The experiment is a continuation of the previous work of the same authors [1] aiming at improving the outcome of the duration prediction mechanism to enhance the overall quality of synthesized speech.

Reference

1. Breuer, S., Francuzik, K., Demenko, G., Szymanski, M. (2006), Analysis of Polish Duration with CART, Proceedings of Speech Prosody, Dresden

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Bibliographic reference.  Klessa, Katarzyna / Szymanski, Marcin / Breuer, Stefan / Demenko, Grazyna (2007): "Optimization of Polish segmental duration prediction with CART", In SSW6-2007, 77-80.