The paper proposes a diphone/sub-syllable method for Arabic Text-to-speech systems. The proposed approach exploits the particular syllabic structure of the Arabic words. For good ...
This paper first introduces a newly-recorded high quality Romanian speech corpus designed for speech synthesis, called “RSS”, along with Romanian front-end text processing mo...
Adriana Stan, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Matth...
It is generally known that a well-designed excitation produces high quality signals in hidden Markov model (HMM)-based speech synthesis systems. This paper proposes a novel techni...
June Sig Sung, Doo Hwa Hong, Kyung Hwan Oh, Nam So...
This paper investigates the performance of a new technique for speech enhancement which combines Linear Predictive (LP) spectrum-based perceptual filtering to the recordings obtai...
Muawiyath Shujau, Christian H. Ritz, Ian S. Burnet...
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...