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ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 9 months ago
Evaluation of objective measures for intelligibility prediction of HMM-based synthetic speech in noise
In this paper we evaluate four objective measures of speech with regards to intelligibility prediction of synthesized speech in diverse noisy situations. We evaluated three intell...
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Junichi Yamagishi, Simo...
CIT
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Voice Conversion by Prosody and Vocal Tract Modification
In this paper we proposed some flexible methods, which are useful in the process of voice conversion. The proposed methods modify the shape of the vocal tract system and the chara...
K. Sreenivasa Rao, B. Yegnanarayana
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...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 9 months ago
HNM-based MFCC+F0 extractor applied to statistical speech synthesis
Currently, the statistical framework based on Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) plays a relevant role in speech synthesis, while voice conversion systems based on Gaussian Mixture Model...
Daniel Erro, Iñaki Sainz, Eva Navas, Inma H...
AI
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
Comparing Humans and Automatic Speech Recognition Systems in Recognizing Dysarthric Speech
Abstract. Speech is a complex process that requires control and coordination of articulation, breathing, voicing, and prosody. Dysarthria is a manifestation of an inability to cont...
Kinfe Tadesse Mengistu, Frank Rudzicz