Quality Assessment of Narrowband vs.Wideband Embedded TTS
Conference: Sprachkommunikation 2006 - ITG-Fachtagung
04/26/2006 - 04/28/2006 at Kiel, Germany
Proceedings: Sprachkommunikation 2006
Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Stan, Sorel; Aalburg, Stefanie (BenQ Mobile GmbH & Co. OHG, Haidenauplatz 1, 81667 Munich, Germany)
Abstract:
In this paper we investigate the quality of a small footprint diphone-based Text-To-Speech (TTS) system, where the acoustic databases have been encoded with the Adaptive Multi Rate Narrowband (AMR-NB) and respectivelyWideband (AMR-WB) codecs. While in a quiet environment the AMR-WB quality is clearly superior to the AMR-NB based TTS, it turns out that the difference in the perceived quality of the two systems tends to disappear in noise.