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In our recent work, a method on how to enumerate differences between various expressive categories (communicative functions) has been proposed. To improve the overall impact of this approach to both the quality of synthetic expressive speech and expressivity perception by listeners, a few modifications are suggested in this paper. The main ones consist in a different way of expressive data processing and penalty matrix calculation. A complex evaluation using listening tests and some auxiliary measures was performed.
This work was supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), project “New Technologies for Information Society” (NTIS), European Centre of Excellence, ED1.1.00/02.0090. The access to computing and storage facilities owned by parties and projects contributing to the National Grid Infrastructure MetaCentrum, provided under the programme “Projects of Large Infrastructure for Research, Development, and Innovations” (LM2010005) is highly appreciated.
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Grůber, M., Matoušek, J. (2013). Improvements in Czech Expressive Speech Synthesis in Limited Domain. In: Železný, M., Habernal, I., Ronzhin, A. (eds) Speech and Computer. SPECOM 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8113. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01931-4_23
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