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ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
VTLN adaptation for statistical speech synthesis
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 ...
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Personalising Speech-To-Speech Translation in the EMIME Project
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....
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 8 months ago
Vocal attractiveness of statistical speech synthesisers
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
COLING
1996
13 years 6 months ago
Segmentation and Labelling of Slovenian Diphone Inventories
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...
ICIP
2004
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Statistical transformations of frontal models for non-frontal face verification
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...
Conrad Sanderson, Samy Bengio