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TSD
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2007
Springer
Speech synthesis techniques have already reached a high level of naturalness. However, they are often evaluated on text reading tasks. New applications will request for conversatio...
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
2010
IEEE
In the present paper we present a new approach to the synthesis of filled pauses. The problem is tackled from the point of view of disfluent speech synthesis. Based on the synth...
LREC
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Structural metadata extraction (MDE) research aims to develop techniques for automatic conversion of raw speech recognition output to forms that are more useful to humans and to d...
ROMAN
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
Abstract—In this paper, we present the humanoid communication robot Fritz. Our robot communicates with people in an intuitive, multimodal way. Fritz uses speech, facial expressio...
CA
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2002
IEEE
Talking virtual characters are graphical simulations of real or imaginary persons capable of human-like behaviour, most importantly talking and gesturing. Coupled with artificial ...