| LREC 2000 2nd International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation | ||||||
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| Title | The Cost258 Signal Generation Test Array |
| Authors | Bailly Gérard (ICP - UMR CNRS no5009, INPG & U3, 46 av. Félix Viallet, 38031 Grenoble CEDEX, France) Banga Eduardo R. (ETSI Telecomunicacion, Campus Universitario, Universidad de Vigo, 36200 Vigo, Spain) Monaghan Alex (National Centre for Language Technology, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland) Rank Erhard (INTHF, Vienna University of Technology, Gusshausstrasse 25/E389, A-1040 Vienna, Austria) |
| Keywords | Analysis-Modification-Synthesis systems, Objective evaluation, Server, Speech |
| Session | Session SO4 - Speech Synthesis Evaluation |
| Full Paper | 1.ps, 1.pdf |
| Abstract | This paper describes a benchmark for Analysis-Modification-Synthesis Systems (AMSS) that are back-ends of all concatenative speech synthesis systems. After introducing the motivations and principles underlying this initiative, we present here a first anonymous objective evaluation comparing the performance of 5 such AMSS. |