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ACL
2006
13 years 7 months ago
Learning to Say It Well: Reranking Realizations by Predicted Synthesis Quality
This paper presents a method for adapting a language generator to the strengths and weaknesses of a synthetic voice, thereby improving the naturalness of synthetic speech in a spo...
Crystal Nakatsu, Michael White
COST
2008
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Articulatory Speech Re-synthesis: Profiting from Natural Acoustic Speech Data
The quality of static phones (e.g. vowels, fricatives, nasals, laterals) generated by articulatory speech synthesizers has reached a high level in the last years. Our goal is to ex...
Dominik Bauer, Jim Kannampuzha, Bernd J. Krög...
TASLP
2002
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13 years 5 months ago
A set of corpus-based text-to-speech synthesis technologies for Mandarin Chinese
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...
Fu-Chiang Chou, Chiu-yu Tseng, Lin-Shan Lee
LREC
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Methodologies for Designing and Recording Speech Databases for Corpus Based Synthesis
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...
Luís C. Oliveira, Sérgio Paulo, Lu&i...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 18 days ago
An HMM trajectory tiling (HTT) approach to high quality TTS
We propose an HMM Trajectory Tiling (HTT) approach to high quality TTS, which is our entry to Blizzard Challenge 2010. In HTT, first refined HMM is trained with the Minimum Genera...
Yao Qian, Zhi-Jie Yan, Yijian Wu, Frank K. Soong, ...