There has been a rapid progress of speech synthesis, however it is still hard to make good objective evaluation of the speech intonation while training the speech synthesis system. Unlike the traditional method, Standard deviation of intonation, which normally makes the speech synthesis system sounds smooth and flat but with less expressiveness, the paper integrates the rhythm correlation in the evaluation based on the tangential intonation. Furthermore, the paper makes the comparing among three typical evaluation methods, Listening Test, Standard Deviation of Intonation, Standard Deviation of Intonation & Tangential Intonation. It proves the method introduced in the paper could generate better synthesis results than others with even less training corpus.
Cite as: Tao, J. (2004) Rhythm Correlation of Speech Synthesis System. Proc. International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 221-224
@inproceedings{tao04_iscslp,
author={Jianhua Tao},
title={{Rhythm Correlation of Speech Synthesis System}},
year=2004,
booktitle={Proc. International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing},
pages={221--224}
}