Synthesis of filled pauses based on a disfluent speech model

In the present paper we present a new approach to the synthesis of filled pauses. The problem is tackled from the point of view of disfluent speech synthesis. Based on the synthetic disfluent speech model, we analyse the features that describe filled pauses and propose a model to predict them. The model was implemented and perceptually evaluated with successful results.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: ICASSP
• Authors: Jordi Adell, Antonio Bonafonte, David Escudero Mancebo
• Keywords: Disfluent Speech, Disfluent Speech Synthesis, ICASSP 2010, Signal Processing, Synthetic Disfluent Speech