16 search results - page 1 / 4 » Learning Prosodic Patterns for Mandarin Speech Synthesis |
KDD
2000
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
2000
ACM
Higher quality synthesized speech is required for widespread use of text-to-speech (TTS) technology, and prosodic pattern is the key feature that makes synthetic speech sound unna...
TASLP
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
This paper presents a set of corpus-based text-to-speech synthesis technologies for Mandarin Chinese. A large speech corpus produced by a single speaker is used, and the speech out...
INTERSPEECH
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
Recently, an increasing attention has been paid to Mandarin word stress which is important for improving the naturalness of speech synthesis. Most of the research on Mandarin spee...
SPEECH
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
We have applied two state-of-the-art speech synthesis techniques (unit selection and HMM-based synthesis) to the synthesis of emotional speech. A series of carefully designed perc...
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
2008
IEEE
Automatic classification of question turns in spontaneous speech using lexical and prosodic evidence
13 years 11 months ago
The ability to identify speech acts reliably is desirable in any spoken language system that interacts with humans. Minimally, such a system should be capable of distinguishing be...