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Main Authors: Darwesh, Yaser, Wern, Lit Wei, Mustafa, Mumtaz Begum
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.00028
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author Darwesh, Yaser
Wern, Lit Wei
Mustafa, Mumtaz Begum
author_facet Darwesh, Yaser
Wern, Lit Wei
Mustafa, Mumtaz Begum
contents Many of the existing TTS systems cannot accurately synthesize text containing a variety of numerical formats, resulting in reduced intelligibility of the synthesized speech. This research aims to develop a numerical format classifier that can classify six types of numeric contexts. Experiments were carried out using the proposed context-based feature extraction technique, which is focused on extracting keywords, punctuation marks, and symbols as the features of the numbers. Support Vector Machine, K-Nearest Neighbors Linear Discriminant Analysis, and Decision Tree were used as classifiers. We have used the 10-fold cross-validation technique to determine the classification accuracy in terms of recall and precision. It can be found that the proposed solution is better than the existing feature extraction technique with improvement to the classification accuracy by 30% to 37%. The use of the number format classification can increase the intelligibility of the TTS systems.
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spellingShingle A Context-Based Numerical Format Prediction for a Text-To-Speech System
Darwesh, Yaser
Wern, Lit Wei
Mustafa, Mumtaz Begum
Audio and Speech Processing
Machine Learning
Many of the existing TTS systems cannot accurately synthesize text containing a variety of numerical formats, resulting in reduced intelligibility of the synthesized speech. This research aims to develop a numerical format classifier that can classify six types of numeric contexts. Experiments were carried out using the proposed context-based feature extraction technique, which is focused on extracting keywords, punctuation marks, and symbols as the features of the numbers. Support Vector Machine, K-Nearest Neighbors Linear Discriminant Analysis, and Decision Tree were used as classifiers. We have used the 10-fold cross-validation technique to determine the classification accuracy in terms of recall and precision. It can be found that the proposed solution is better than the existing feature extraction technique with improvement to the classification accuracy by 30% to 37%. The use of the number format classification can increase the intelligibility of the TTS systems.
title A Context-Based Numerical Format Prediction for a Text-To-Speech System
topic Audio and Speech Processing
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.00028