Modeling of Rakugo Speech and Its Limitations: Toward Speech Synthesis That Entertains Audiences

Modeling of Rakugo Speech and Its Limitations: Toward Speech Synthesis That Entertains Audiences

We have been investigating rakugo speech synthesis as a challenging example of speech synthesis that entertains audiences. Rakugo is a traditional Japanese form of verbal entertainment similar to a combination of one-person stand-up comedy and comic storytelling and is popular even today. In rakugo,...

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Main Authors: Shuhei Kato, Yusuke Yasuda, Xin Wang, Erica Cooper, Shinji Takaki, Junichi Yamagishi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
Subjects:
Context
entertainment
global style tokens
rakugo
self-attention
speech synthesis
Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9149598/

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