In this paper, we propose a novel unit concatenation and synthesis method using ABS/OLA sinusoidal model. Phase succession is used in the unit synthesis assuming that the pitch onset time of the first frame in a given unit is the frame center. In the unit concatenation, the phase succession and interpolation of the sinusoid amplitudes via several frames around the concatenation point is utilized. As a result of applying this method to the Text-to- Speech(TTS) system, we got speech samples which were more intelligible and natural than those produced by conventional method.
Cite as: Bae, J.-H., Byeon, H.-J., Oh, Y.-H. (2000) Speech quality improvement in TTS system using ABS/OLA sinusoidal model. Proc. 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2000), vol. 3, 905-908, doi: 10.21437/ICSLP.2000-680
@inproceedings{bae00_icslp,
author={Jae-Hyun Bae and Heo-Jin Byeon and Yung-Hwan Oh},
title={{Speech quality improvement in TTS system using ABS/OLA sinusoidal model}},
year=2000,
booktitle={Proc. 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2000)},
pages={vol. 3, 905-908},
doi={10.21437/ICSLP.2000-680}
}