Vietnamese HMM-based Speech Synthesis with prosody information
Anh Tuan Dinh, Thanh Son Phan, Thang tat Vu, Chi Mai Luong · SSW · 2013
Generating natural-sounding synthetic voice is an aim of all text to speech system. To meet the goal, many prosody features have been used in full-context labels of an HMMbased Vietnamese synthesizer. In the prosody specification, POS and Intonation information are considered not as important as positional information. The paper investigates the impact of POS and Intonation tagging on the naturalness of HMM-based voice. It was discovered that, the POS and Intonation tags help reconstruct the duration and emotion in synthesized voice.