Developing Speech Synthesis System for Stock-price Bulletins and Trial Use in Digital Terrestrial Radio
Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: The 'Kabushiki Shikyo' program, broadcast on NHK Radio 2, reports on the daily closing prices and net changes of about 830 stocks listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Reading out the numerical values within the allotted broadcast time without making mistakes can be extremely difficult for the announcers. We have therefore developed a prototype voice synthesizer for stock-price bulletins, which uses numerical speech synthesis and automatic speech-rate conversion. Our prototype system has been used in experimental digital terrestrial radio broadcasts since October 2006. This article describes the generation of texts to build the speech waveform database, the mechanism used to synthesize numerical speech via the database, the evaluation of naturalness of synthesized speech samples, and the prototype system currently being used by experimental digital terrestrial radio.
DOI: 10.3169/itej.62.69
Authors: Hiroyuki Segi, Nobumasa Seiyama, Reiko Tako, Tohru Takagi, Satoshi Oode, Atsushi Imai, Masamichi Nishiwaki, Ryuji Koyama
Institution: Japan Broadcasting Corporation (Japan)
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2000818392