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This paper focuses on voice banking and creating personalised speech synthesis of laryngectomised patients who lose their voice after this radical surgery. Specific aspects of voice banking are discussed in the paper, including a description of the adjustments of the generic methods. The main attention is paid to the speech corpus building since the quality of synthesised speech depends a lot on the speech units variability and the number of their occurrences. Also some statistics and characteristics of the first experimental voices are presented and the possibility of using different speech synthesis methods depending on the voice quality and speech corpus size is pointed out.
The research leading to these results has received funding from the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2009-2014 and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports under Project Contract no. MSMT-28477/2014, Project no. 7F14236 (HCENAT). This work was also supported by the grant of the University of West Bohemia, project No. SGS-2013-032.
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Jůzová, M., Romportl, J., Tihelka, D. (2015). Speech Corpus Preparation for Voice Banking of Laryngectomised Patients. In: Král, P., Matoušek, V. (eds) Text, Speech, and Dialogue. TSD 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9302. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24033-6_32
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