Speech synthesis and quality evaluation

• Main Author: Jiang, Xiaotong
• Other Authors: Tan Yap Peng
• Format: Thesis-Master by Coursework
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2024
• Subjects: Computer and Information Science; Engineering; Speech quality assessment (SQA); MOSNet; Human speech; Synthetic speech; WhisperX; Word error rate (WER); Character error rate (CER); Speech synthesis; Speech recognition
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/181485
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The objective of this dissertation is to compare the results of objective Speech Quality Assessment (SQA) between human and synthetic speeches to verify the feasibility of using this method to identify if a speech is human-recorded. We also tried using speech synthesis and SQA to quantify the perfor...