In this paper we describe the design and production of Catalan database for building synthetic voices. Two speakers, with 10 hours per speaker, have recorded 10 hours of speech. T...
Antonio Bonafonte, Jordi Adell, Ignasi Esquerra, S...
This paper first introduces a newly-recorded high quality Romanian speech corpus designed for speech synthesis, called “RSS”, along with Romanian front-end text processing mo...
Adriana Stan, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Matth...
In this paper, the design and implementation of a corpus-based singing voice synthesis (SVS) system for Mandarin Chinese was introduced. The design rules of three corpora for sing...
Cheng-Yuan Lin, Tzu-Ying Lin, Jyh-Shing Roger Jang
In this paper we share our experience and describe the methodologies that we have used in designing and recording large speech databases for applications requiring speech synthesi...
In speaker-adaptive HMM-based speech synthesis, there are a few speakers whose synthetic speech sounds worse than that of other speakers, despite having the same amount of adaptat...
Junichi Yamagishi, Oliver Watts, Simon King, Bela ...