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Integration of Spectral Feature Extraction and Modeling for HMM-Based Speech Synthesis Kazuhiro NAKAMURA Kei HASHIMOTO Yoshihiko NANKAKU Keiichi TOKUDA Publication IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Vol.E97-D No.6 pp.1438-1448 Publication Date: 2014/06/01 Online ISSN: 1745-1361 DOI: 10.1587/transinf.E97.D.1438 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Advances in Modeling for Real-world Speech Information Processing and its Application) Category: HMM-based Speech Synthesis Keyword: integrative model, HMM-based speech synthesis, acoustic modeling, mel-cepstral analysis, trajectory HMM, Full Text: PDF(1.7MB)>>
Summary: This paper proposes a novel approach for integrating spectral feature extraction and acoustic modeling in hidden Markov model (HMM) based speech synthesis. The statistical modeling process of speech waveforms is typically divided into two component modules: the frame-by-frame feature extraction module and the acoustic modeling module. In the feature extraction module, the statistical mel-cepstral analysis technique has been used and the objective function is the likelihood of mel-cepstral coefficients for given speech waveforms. In the acoustic modeling module, the objective function is the likelihood of model parameters for given mel-cepstral coefficients. It is important to improve the performance of each component module for achieving higher quality synthesized speech. However, the final objective of speech synthesis systems is to generate natural speech waveforms from given texts, and the improvement of each component module does not always lead to the improvement of the quality of synthesized speech. Therefore, ideally all objective functions should be optimized based on an integrated criterion which well represents subjective speech quality of human perception. In this paper, we propose an approach to model speech waveforms directly and optimize the final objective function. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperformed the conventional methods in objective and subjective measures. | ||||||||||
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