The IBM expressive speech synthesis system

Wael Hamza, Ellen Eide, Raimo Bakis, Michael Picheny, John Pitrelli

This paper introduces the IBM Expressive Speech Synthesis system. We describe recent work in improving the quality of our baseline text-to-speech system as well as extending our capabilities to generate expressive synthetic speech. We present results showing improved base quality, especially for sentences drawn from a limited domain. We also demonstrate our ability to convey good news and bad news, produce contrastive emphasis, and ask a question appropriately. In order to facilitate access to the expressive capabilities, we use some of our proposed extensions to the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML).

doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2004-485

Cite as: Hamza, W., Eide, E., Bakis, R., Picheny, M., Pitrelli, J. (2004) The IBM expressive speech synthesis system. Proc. Interspeech 2004, 2577-2580, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2004-485

@inproceedings{hamza04b_interspeech,
  author={Wael Hamza and Ellen Eide and Raimo Bakis and Michael Picheny and John Pitrelli},
  title={{The IBM expressive speech synthesis system}},
  year=2004,
  booktitle={Proc. Interspeech 2004},
  pages={2577--2580},
  doi={10.21437/Interspeech.2004-485}
}