Grammar-based prosody modification for explicit control Malay language storytelling speech synthesis / Muhammad Izzad Ramli

Storytelling speech synthesis is a process of converting written text to the spoken speech in storytelling speaking style. It has gained much interest in the area of digital storytelling and storytelling humanoid robot for children in learning environment. Reviews have shown that storytelling speech...

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Main Author:	Ramli, Muhammad Izzad
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Language:	English
Published:	Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM 2018
Subjects:	Study and teaching. Research Oral communication. Speech
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spelling	uitm-220992018-11-13T09:17:16Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/22099/ Grammar-based prosody modification for explicit control Malay language storytelling speech synthesis / Muhammad Izzad Ramli Ramli, Muhammad Izzad Study and teaching. Research Oral communication. Speech Storytelling speech synthesis is a process of converting written text to the spoken speech in storytelling speaking style. It has gained much interest in the area of digital storytelling and storytelling humanoid robot for children in learning environment. Reviews have shown that storytelling speech synthesis can be developed using implicit control, explicit control or playback approach. The literatures stated that each approach has its own drawbacks and needs to be tackled for a better quality synthesized speech. In this thesis, explicit control is selected because it is commonly used in the storytelling speech synthesis and has shown to produce good intelligibility and reasonably natural speech. However, modification of prosody in explicit control approach remains a problem as it may lead to speech quality degeneration due to extreme over-exaggeration of speech. Furthermore, perception evaluation showed that the similarity score between the natural and synthesized speech can also be improved for a more satisfactory result. Therefore, this research aims to introduce a new prosody modification technique to reduce over-exaggeration and simultaneously improve the similarity between the natural and synthesized speech. Three narrative children short stories in neutral and storytelling styles are recorded by nine storytellers. A total of 522 speech sentences, 5,238 words and 12,294 syllables are collected to be utilized as experimental datasets and prosody analysis. Based on the prosody analysis, a grammar-based prosody modification rules are proposed by integrating grammatical structure… Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM 2018 Book Section PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/22099/1/ABS_MUHAMMAD%20IZZAD%20RAMLI%20TDRA%20VOL%2014%20IGS%2018.pdf Ramli, Muhammad Izzad (2018) Grammar-based prosody modification for explicit control Malay language storytelling speech synthesis / Muhammad Izzad Ramli. In: The Doctoral Research Abstracts. IGS Biannual Publication, 14 . Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM, Shah Alam.
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spellingShingle	Study and teaching. Research Oral communication. Speech Ramli, Muhammad Izzad Grammar-based prosody modification for explicit control Malay language storytelling speech synthesis / Muhammad Izzad Ramli
description	Storytelling speech synthesis is a process of converting written text to the spoken speech in storytelling speaking style. It has gained much interest in the area of digital storytelling and storytelling humanoid robot for children in learning environment. Reviews have shown that storytelling speech synthesis can be developed using implicit control, explicit control or playback approach. The literatures stated that each approach has its own drawbacks and needs to be tackled for a better quality synthesized speech. In this thesis, explicit control is selected because it is commonly used in the storytelling speech synthesis and has shown to produce good intelligibility and reasonably natural speech. However, modification of prosody in explicit control approach remains a problem as it may lead to speech quality degeneration due to extreme over-exaggeration of speech. Furthermore, perception evaluation showed that the similarity score between the natural and synthesized speech can also be improved for a more satisfactory result. Therefore, this research aims to introduce a new prosody modification technique to reduce over-exaggeration and simultaneously improve the similarity between the natural and synthesized speech. Three narrative children short stories in neutral and storytelling styles are recorded by nine storytellers. A total of 522 speech sentences, 5,238 words and 12,294 syllables are collected to be utilized as experimental datasets and prosody analysis. Based on the prosody analysis, a grammar-based prosody modification rules are proposed by integrating grammatical structure…
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author	Ramli, Muhammad Izzad
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title	Grammar-based prosody modification for explicit control Malay language storytelling speech synthesis / Muhammad Izzad Ramli
title_short	Grammar-based prosody modification for explicit control Malay language storytelling speech synthesis / Muhammad Izzad Ramli
title_full	Grammar-based prosody modification for explicit control Malay language storytelling speech synthesis / Muhammad Izzad Ramli
title_fullStr	Grammar-based prosody modification for explicit control Malay language storytelling speech synthesis / Muhammad Izzad Ramli
title_full_unstemmed	Grammar-based prosody modification for explicit control Malay language storytelling speech synthesis / Muhammad Izzad Ramli
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publisher	Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM
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Grammar-based prosody modification for explicit control Malay language storytelling speech synthesis / Muhammad Izzad Ramli

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