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ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 9 months ago
2011
IEEE
A major factor which causes a deterioration in speech quality in HMM-based speech synthesis is the use of a simple delta pulse signal to generate the excitation of voiced speech. ...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 9 months ago
2011
IEEE
The goal of the work described here is to limit the computation needed in unit selection Viterbi search for text-to-speech synthesis. The broader goal is to improve speech quality...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 3 days ago
2010
This paper presents preliminary work on building a system able to synthesize concurrently the speech signal and a 3D animation of the speaker's face. This is done by concaten...
LREC
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
This paper describes our work on developing corpora of three varieties of Viennese for unit selection speech synthesis. The synthetic voices for Viennese varieties, implemented wi...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 9 months ago
2011
IEEE
One problem in concatenative speech synthesis is how to incorporate prosodic factors in the unit selection. Imposing a predicted prosodic target is error-prone and does not benefi...