3 papers
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Synthesizing speech with selected perceptual voice qualities - A case study with creaky voice
Frederik Rautenberg, Fritz Seebauer, Jana Wiechmann +3
The control of perceptual voice qualities in a text-to-speech (TTS) system is of interest for applications where unmanipu- lated and manipulated speech probes can serve to illustra…
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Towards Frame-level Quality Predictions of Synthetic Speech
Michael Kuhlmann, Fritz Seebauer, Petra Wagner +1
While automatic subjective speech quality assessment has witnessed much progress, an open question is whether an automatic quality assessment at frame resolution is possible. This…
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Speech Synthesis along Perceptual Voice Quality Dimensions
Frederik Rautenberg, Michael Kuhlmann, Fritz Seebauer +3
While expressive speech synthesis or voice conversion systems mainly focus on controlling or manipulating abstract prosodic characteristics of speech, such as emotion or accent, we…