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ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
Optimizing segment label boundaries for statistical speech synthesis
This paper introduces a new optimization technique for moving segment labels (phone and subphonetic) to optimize statistical parametric speech synthesis models. The choice of obje...
Alan W. Black, John Kominek
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Simple methods for improving speaker-similarity of HMM-based speech synthesis
In this paper we revisit some basic configuration choices of HMMbased speech synthesis, such as waveform sampling rate, auditory frequency warping scale and the logarithmic scali...
Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King
LREC
2008
89views Education» more  LREC 2008»
13 years 6 months ago
Building of a Speech Corpus Optimised for Unit Selection TTS Synthesis
The paper deals with the process of designing a phonetically and prosodically rich speech corpus for unit selection speech synthesis. The attention is given mainly to the recordin...
Jindrich Matousek, Daniel Tihelka, Jan Romportl
TSD
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Filled Pauses in Speech Synthesis: Towards Conversational Speech
Speech synthesis techniques have already reached a high level of naturalness. However, they are often evaluated on text reading tasks. New applications will request for conversatio...
Jordi Adell, Antonio Bonafonte, David Escudero Man...
COST
2008
Springer
136views Multimedia» more  COST 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Articulatory Synthesis of Speech and Singing: State of the Art and Suggestions for Future Research
Articulatory synthesis of speech and singing aims for modeling the production process of speech and singing as human-like or natural as possible. The state of the art is described ...
Bernd J. Kröger, Peter Birkholz