An Objective Evaluation Framework for Pathological Speech Synthesis

Autor:	Halpern, Bence Mark, Fritsch, Julian, Hermann, Enno, van Son, Rob, Scharenborg, Odette, -Doss, Mathew Magimai.
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Computer Science - Sound Computer Science - Computation and Language Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Audio and Speech Processing
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	The development of pathological speech systems is currently hindered by the lack of a standardised objective evaluation framework. In this work, (1) we utilise existing detection and analysis techniques to propose a general framework for the consistent evaluation of synthetic pathological speech. This framework evaluates the voice quality and the intelligibility aspects of speech and is shown to be complementary using our experiments. (2) Using our proposed evaluation framework, we develop and test a dysarthric voice conversion system (VC) using CycleGAN-VC and a PSOLA-based speech rate modification technique. We show that the developed system is able to synthesise dysarthric speech with different levels of speech intelligibility. Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures. Accepted to the ITG Conference on Speech Communication | 29.09.2021 - 01.10.2021 | Kiel
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.00308 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv