Incremental TTS for Japanese - NAIST...Phoneme identity, Part-of-speech tag, relative pitch...

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Incremental TTS for Japanese Language TOMOYA YANAGITA 1 , SAKRIANI SAKTI 1,2 , SATOSHI NAKAMURA 1,2 1 NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, JAPAN 2 RIKEN, CENTER FOR ADVANCED INTELLIGENCE PROJECT AIP, JAPAN

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Incremental TTS for Japanese LanguageTOM OYA YA N AGITA 1 , S A K RIA NI S A K TI 1 , 2 , S ATOS HI NA K A M URA 1 , 2

1 N A R A I N S T I T U T E O F S C I E N C E A N D T E C H N O L O G Y , J A P A N

2 R I K E N , C E N T E R F O R A D V A N C E D I N T E L L I G E N C E P R O J E C T A I P , J A P A N

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Background

Text-To-Speech (TTS) needs a full sentence as input

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“私の名前は柳田です。”

(I am Yanagita.)TTS

If text length is long, TTS has to wait till the end and cause a delay

“今日私はインクリメンタル音声合成について話しますが、もちろん皆さんご存知な方がおおいと ……”

(Today, I will talk about incremental

speech synthesis, but I think that there

are many people who know ……)

TTS

No response yet

(waiting the end

of sentence)

Require to synthesize speech in smaller chunks → Incremental TTS (ITTS)

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Related Works

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Limited existing works on ITTS (Mostly based on HMM)

Problems:• Some contextual linguistic features become unknown

• Speech quality may deteriorate compared to standard HMM-TTS

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Related Works

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Limited existing works on ITTS (Mostly based on HMM)

Problems:• Some contextual linguistic features become unknown

• Speech quality may deteriorate compared to standard HMM-TTS

[Baumann et al., 2014]Analysis the impact of potentially missing features on the quality of the estimated prosody.• Investigation only base on word-by-word synthesis extension.

-> German, English

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Related Works

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Limited existing works on ITTS (Mostly based on HMM)

Problems:• Some contextual linguistic features become unknown

• Speech quality may deteriorate compared to standard HMM-TTS

[Pouget et al., 2015]

HMM training strategy for ITTS• French

-> Word-by-words synthesis (potentially with a delay of one word)

[Baumann et al., 2014]Analysis the impact of potentially missing features on the quality of the estimated prosody.• Investigation only base on word-by-word synthesis extension.

-> German, English

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Research Objectives

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Most investigations focus only on German, English, French • Focus on Word-by-word synthesis and its improvement.

• ITTS for tonal language has not been studied yet.

Example of tonal language → Japanese• Major linguistic features: phoneme, accent phrase, and breath group

(several accent phrases)

• Only part-of-speech (POS) tag is used as word-level information

• Tonal feature is important

• It may uses longer unit than word as linguistic features and synthesis

unit.

Necessary to investigates the effect on speech quality in

linguistic and temporal locality choices in tonal language

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Proposed Approach

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1st

2nd

Investigation the quality of synthesized speech on

various linguistic and temporal locality

• To estimate the optimum synthesis unit

Investigation of chunk connection

• To maintain the smoothness between chunks

• To produce more natural speech

Investigates the effect on speech quality in linguistic and

temporal locality choices for a Japanese ITTS system

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Japanese Linguistic Information

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…

Sentence

a ra yu ru ge N j i ts u wo m a g e t a no daPhoneme …

あ ら ゆ る 曲 げ た の だげ ん じ つ を ， …

POS1Word POS* POS2POS

3 POS10 POS

11

POS

12

POS

13…

Breath group 1Breath group … Breath group 2

Accent phrase…

High pitch

Low pitch

(Bridge)

は

しHigh pitchLow pitch

(chopsticks)

し

は

はし(ha-shi)

Example of different accent type

• Word has each

accent type.

• Different accent type,

Different meanings.

*Part-Of-Speech tag

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Japanese Linguistic Information

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…

Sentence

a ra yu ru ge N j i ts u wo m a g e t a no daPhoneme …

あ ら ゆ る 曲 げ た の だげ ん じ つ を ， …

POS1Word POS POS2POS

3 POS10 POS

11

POS

12

POS

13…

Breath group 1Breath group … Breath group 2

Accent phrase…

High pitch

Low pitch

にひゃく

Example of connecting accent type (accent phrase)

メートル

＋

(two hundred)

に

ひゃ

(meter)

メ

く ー ト ル

->(two hundred meters)

に

ひゃ く ー ト ルメ

＋ にひゃくメートル

->

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Linguistic Features Locality

Use only “current” and “past” linguistic informationRemove “next” contextual information to unknown

Acoustic

featuresHMM

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Phoneme

Word

Accent phrase

Breath group

Train HMM models

Investigate several possible linguistic locality choices

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Experimental Set-up

Setting Details

Dataset ATR 503 phonetically balanced sentences (HTS)（Training 450 sentences・Test 53 sentences）

Acoustic

feat.

F0 (1dim), Mel cepstrum coefficient (39 dim),

Aperiodic component (5 dim), and dynamic feature

Analysis

method

STRAIGHT [Kawahara et al. 1999]

Linguistic

Information

Phoneme identity, Part-of-speech tag, relative pitch position, # of accent

phrases and moras, # of breath group, position of breath group, etc.

Objective

evaluation

Mean opinion score of naturalness

(1: very bad, 2:bad, 3:normal, 4:good, 5:Very good)

16 Japanese native speakers, each 15 samples

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Subjective Evaluation

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

Pho+Pos Pho+Pos+Acc Pho+Acc+Bre Baseline TTS

MO

S

95% confidence interval

*p<0.001

Linguistic Phoneme+POSThe naturalness close to bad (MOS=2)

Linguistic Phoneme+POS+accent phraseThe naturalness close to normal (MOS=3)

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Pho: phoneme

Pos: word POS tagAcc: accent phrase

Bre: breath group

Based on the results,

we decided to accent phrase as a synthesis unit

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F0 Sequence Between Accent Phrases

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Sentence unit synthesis Accent phrase unit synthesis

Problem• Prosody breaks occurs when using only current accent phrase

units

Chunk connection approach for smoothing[Timo et al. ,2012]

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Proposed Approach

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1st

2nd

Investigation the quality of synthesized speech on

various linguistic and temporal locality

• To estimate the optimum synthesis unit

Investigation of chunk connection

• To maintain the smoothness between chunks

• To produce more natural speech

Investigates the effect on speech quality in linguistic and

temporal locality choices for a Japanese ITTS system

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Method of Chunk Connection

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Unit1 TTS

Unit2 TTS

Unit3 TTS

Synthesized

speech

Phrase with past all phrases

Unit1 TTS

Unit2 TTS

Unit3 TTS

Unit1

Unit2Unit1

Phrase with past one phrase

Unit1 TTS

Unit2 TTS

Unit3 TTS

Unit1

Unit2

Unit4

Phrase with past/next one phrase

Unit2 TTS

Unit3 TTS

Unit1

Unit2Unit1

Unit3 TTSUnit2

Phrase by phrase

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Subjective Evaluation

*p<0.00195%confidence interval

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1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0M

OS

Connecting one past and next accent phrase chunks

could improve naturalness

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F0 Sequence Between Accent Phrases

F0 sequences can be smoother by waiting for one more chunk

before starting the synthesis process

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ConclusionJapanese language as tonal language

• Accent phrase (tonal information) unit required as synthesis unit

• It’s effective to wait for one accent phrase for improving quality

Future work• Implementation of full-pledge Japanese ITTS System

• Experiment of other tonal language (i.e., Chinese..)

• DNN based incremental TTS

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Conclusion

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End of slide

Thank you

Q & A

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Subjective result ofInvestigation of linguistic Information LocalityThe result tends to improve when linguistic information is added.

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# of linguistic Info. ManyFew

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Pho Pho

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Pho

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Pho

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Pho

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# of linguistic Info. ManyFew


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