Thats a unique idea.You should consider the following idea to enhance your idea so that it would impact uniquely: While the current TTS systems can deliver quite acceptable segmental quality of synthesized speech for voice user interface applications, its prosody is still perceived by users as “robotic” or not expressive. ,  investigate how to improve TTS prosody prediction and detection. Conditional Random Field (CRF), a discriminative probabilistic model for the labeling the sequential data, is adopted. Rich syntactic and acoustic, contextual features are used in building the CRF models. Experiments performed on Boston University Radio Speech Corpus show that CRF models trained on our proposed rich contextual features can improve the accuracy of prosody prediction and detection in both speaker-dependent and speaker-independent cases. The performance is either comparable or better than the best reported results.
['Yao Qian', 'Zhizheng Wu', 'Xuezhe Ma', 'Frank K. Soong']
I am writing a research paper on a idea Automatic prosody prediction and detection with Conditional Random Field (CRF) models
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