2016
Testing the consistency assumption: Pronunciation variant forced alignment in read and spontaneous speech synthesis
Rasmus Dall, Sandrine Brognaux, Korin Richmond, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Gustav Eje Henter, Julia Hirschberg +2
ICASSP 2016accepted
Forced alignment for speech synthesis traditionally aligns a phoneme sequence predetermined by the front-end text processing system. This sequence is not altered during alignment, i.e., it is forced, despite possibly being faulty. The consistency assumption is the assumption that these mistakes do n…