A common problem in speech recognition for foreign accented speech is that there is not enough training data for an accent-specific or a speaker-specific recognizer. Speaker ada...
This paper describes a speaker discrimination experiment in which native English listeners were presented with natural and synthetic speech stimuli in English and were asked to ju...
In the EMIME project, we are developing a mobile device that performs personalized speech-to-speech translation such that a user’s spoken input in one language is used to produc...
This paper describes a source modeling method for hidden Markov model (HMM) based speech synthesis for improved naturalness. A speech corpus is rst decomposed into the glottal sou...
Tuomo Raitio, Antti Suni, Hannu Pulakka, Martti Va...
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...
Roberto Barra-Chicote, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon Ki...