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ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 8 months ago
Building HMM based unit-selection speech synthesis system using synthetic speech naturalness evaluation score
This paper proposes a unit-selection and waveform concatenation speech synthesis system based on synthetic speech naturalness evaluation. A Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Log Li...
Heng Lu 0002, Zhen-Hua Ling, Li-Rong Dai, Ren-Hua ...
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TSD
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Listening-Test-Based Annotation of Communicative Functions for Expressive Speech Synthesis
This paper is focused on the evaluation of listening test that was realized with a view to objectively annotate expressive speech recordings and further develop a limited domain ex...
Martin Gruber, Jindrich Matousek
SPEECH
2010
142views more  SPEECH 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
Analysis of statistical parametric and unit selection speech synthesis systems applied to emotional speech
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...
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Using speech transformation to increase speech intelligibility for the hearing- and speaking-impaired
We present two speech transformation approaches designed to increase the intelligibility of speech. The first approach is used in the context of increasing the intelligibility of...
Alexander Kain, Jan P. H. van Santen