Whistler: A Trainable Text-to-Speech System
- Xuedong Huang ,
- Alex Acero ,
- Jim Adcock ,
- Hsiao-Wuen Hon ,
- John Goldsmith ,
- Jingsong Liu ,
- Mike Plumpe
Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing |
Published by International Speech Communication Association
We introduce Whistler, a trainable Text-to-Speech (TTS) system, that automatically learns the model parameters from a corpus. Both prosody parameters and concatenative speech units are derived through the use of probabilistic learning methods that have been successfully used for speech recognition. Whistler can produce synthetic speech that sounds very natural and resembles the acoustic and prosodic characteristics of the original speaker. The underlying technologies used in Whistler can significantly facilitate the process of creating generic TTS systems for a new language, a new voice, or a new speech style.
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