Quality of Synthetic Speech Perceptual Dimensions, Influencing Factors, and Instrumental Assessment /

• Main Author: Hinterleitner, Florian (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: T-Labs Series in Telecommunication Services,
• Subjects: Engineering.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.

This book reviews research towards perceptual quality dimensions of synthetic speech, compares these findings with the state of the art, and derives a set of five universal perceptual quality dimensions for TTS signals. They are: (i) naturalness of voice, (ii) prosodic quality, (iii) fluency and int...