The advent of statistical speech synthesis has enabled the unification of the basic techniques used in speech synthesis and recognition. Adaptation techniques that have been succ...
Lakshmi Saheer, Philip N. Garner, John Dines, Hui ...
In the EMIME project we have studied unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation. We have employed an HMM statistical framework for both speech recognition and synthesis which p...
Mikko Kurimo, William Byrne, John Dines, Philip N....
Our previous analysis of speaker-adaptive HMM-based speech synthesis methods suggested that there are two possible reasons why average voices can obtain higher subjective scores t...
Sandra Andraszewicz, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King
Preparation, recording, segmentation and pitch labelling of Slovenian diphone inventories are described. A special user friendly intert'ace package was developed in order to ...
Jerneja Gros, Ivo Ipsic, Simon Dobrisek, France Mi...
In the framework of a face verification system using local features and a Gaussian Mixture Model based classifier, we address the problem of non-frontal face verification (when on...