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Quality of Synthetic Speech Perceptual Dimensions, Influencing Factors, and Instrumental Assessment

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Full Title

Quality of Synthetic Speech Perceptual Dimensions, Influencing Factors, and Instrumental Assessment

Author(s)

Florian Hinterleitner

Edition
ISBN

9789811037344, 9789811037337

Publisher

Springer

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

This book reviews research towards perceptual quality dimensions of synthetic speech, compares these findings with the state of the art, and derives a set of five universal perceptual quality dimensions for TTS signals. They are: (i) naturalness of voice, (ii) prosodic quality, (iii) fluency and intelligibility, (iv) absence of disturbances, and (v) calmness. Moreover, a test protocol for the efficient indentification of those dimensions in a listening test is introduced. Furthermore, several factors influencing these dimensions are examined. In addition, different techniques for the instrumental quality assessment of TTS signals are introduced, reviewed and tested. Finally, the requirements for the integration of an instrumental quality measure into a concatenative TTS system are examined.