Context-Aware Prosody Correction for Text-Based Speech Editing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08328v1
• Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 18:16:30 GMT
• Title: Context-Aware Prosody Correction for Text-Based Speech Editing
• Authors: Max Morrison, Lucas Rencker, Zeyu Jin, Nicholas J. Bryan, Juan-Pablo Caceres, Bryan Pardo
• Abstract summary: A major drawback of current systems is that edited recordings often sound unnatural because of prosody mismatches around edited regions. We propose a new context-aware method for more natural sounding text-based editing of speech.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Text-based speech editors expedite the process of editing speech recordings by permitting editing via intuitive cut, copy, and paste operations on a speech transcript. A major drawback of current systems, however, is that edited recordings often sound unnatural because of prosody mismatches around edited regions. In our work, we propose a new context-aware method for more natural sounding text-based editing of speech. To do so, we 1) use a series of neural networks to generate salient prosody features that are dependent on the prosody of speech surrounding the edit and amenable to fine-grained user control 2) use the generated features to control a standard pitch-shift and time-stretch method and 3) apply a denoising neural network to remove artifacts induced by the signal manipulation to yield a high-fidelity result. We evaluate our approach using a subjective listening test, provide a detailed comparative analysis, and conclude several interesting insights.

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