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Presentation #	9
Session:	Voice Conversion and TTS
Session Time:	Friday, December 21, 10:00 - 12:00
Presentation Time:	Friday, December 21, 10:00 - 12:00
Presentation:	Poster
Topic:	Speech recognition and synthesis:
Paper Title:	COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION OF STATISTICAL SPEECH WAVEFORM SYNTHESIS
Authors:	Thomas Merritt; Amazon
	Bartosz Putrycz; Amazon
	Adam Nadolski; Amazon
	Tianjun Ye; Amazon
	Daniel Korzekwa; Amazon
	Wiktor Dolecki; Amazon
	Thomas Drugman; Amazon
	Viacheslav Klimkov; Amazon
	Alexis Moinet; Amazon
	Andrew Breen; Amazon
	Rafal Kuklinski; Amazon
	Nikko Strom; Amazon
	Roberto Barra-Chicote; Amazon
Abstract:	Statistical TTS systems that directly predict the speech waveform have recently reported improvements in synthesis quality. This investigation evaluates Amazon’s statistical speech waveform synthesis (SSWS) system. An in-depth evaluation of SSWS is conducted across a number of domains to better understand the consistency in quality. The results of this evaluation are validated by repeating the procedure on a separate group of testers. Finally, an analysis of the nature of speech errors of SSWS compared to hybrid unit selection synthesis is conducted to identify the strengths and weaknesses of SSWS. Having a deeper insight into SSWS allows us to better define the focus of future work to improve this new technology.