Implementation of simulated annealing in unit selection for Malay text-to-speech system

Unit selection method has become the predominant approach in speech synthesis. The quality of unit selection based concatenative speech synthesis primarily governed by how well two successive units can be joined together. Therefore, the main purpose of unit selection is to minimize the audible disco...

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Main Author:	Lim, Yee Chea
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2009
Subjects:	QA Mathematics
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/12369/6/LimYeeCheaMFS2009.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.123692017-09-17T06:54:47Z Implementation of simulated annealing in unit selection for Malay text-to-speech system 2009-11 Lim, Yee Chea QA Mathematics Unit selection method has become the predominant approach in speech synthesis. The quality of unit selection based concatenative speech synthesis primarily governed by how well two successive units can be joined together. Therefore, the main purpose of unit selection is to minimize the audible discontinuities. The process of unit selection is based on phonetic context and Simulated Annealing that selects units from large database with the minimization of a criterion, which is often called cost. This dissertation presents a variable-length unit selection Malay text to speech system that is capable of providing more natural and accurate unit selection for synthesized speech. To provide the capability of selecting a speech unit not only limited to phoneme, diphone or triphone but also a string of phonemes that can be matched directly to the database, unit selection methods have been implemented. The Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) as spectral parameters have been introduced in the unit selection based speech synthesis. Distance measurement is needed to measure the difference between two vectors of this speech feature. The spectral distance used is Euclidean Distance. 2009-11 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/12369/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/12369/6/LimYeeCheaMFS2009.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Science Faculty of Science
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spellingShingle	QA Mathematics Lim, Yee Chea Implementation of simulated annealing in unit selection for Malay text-to-speech system
description	Unit selection method has become the predominant approach in speech synthesis. The quality of unit selection based concatenative speech synthesis primarily governed by how well two successive units can be joined together. Therefore, the main purpose of unit selection is to minimize the audible discontinuities. The process of unit selection is based on phonetic context and Simulated Annealing that selects units from large database with the minimization of a criterion, which is often called cost. This dissertation presents a variable-length unit selection Malay text to speech system that is capable of providing more natural and accurate unit selection for synthesized speech. To provide the capability of selecting a speech unit not only limited to phoneme, diphone or triphone but also a string of phonemes that can be matched directly to the database, unit selection methods have been implemented. The Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) as spectral parameters have been introduced in the unit selection based speech synthesis. Distance measurement is needed to measure the difference between two vectors of this speech feature. The spectral distance used is Euclidean Distance.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Lim, Yee Chea
author_facet	Lim, Yee Chea
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title	Implementation of simulated annealing in unit selection for Malay text-to-speech system
title_short	Implementation of simulated annealing in unit selection for Malay text-to-speech system
title_full	Implementation of simulated annealing in unit selection for Malay text-to-speech system
title_fullStr	Implementation of simulated annealing in unit selection for Malay text-to-speech system
title_full_unstemmed	Implementation of simulated annealing in unit selection for Malay text-to-speech system
title_sort	implementation of simulated annealing in unit selection for malay text-to-speech system
granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Science
granting_department	Faculty of Science
publishDate	2009
url	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/12369/6/LimYeeCheaMFS2009.pdf
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Implementation of simulated annealing in unit selection for Malay text-to-speech system

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