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...
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...
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...
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...
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, ...