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2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Recording and Annotation of Speech Corpus for Czech Unit Selection Speech Synthesis
The paper gives a brief summarisation of preparation and recording of a phonetically and prosodically rich speech corpus for Czech unit selection text-to-speech synthesis. Special ...
Jindrich Matousek, Jan Romportl
TSD
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Analysis of Changes in Dialogue Rhythm Due to Dialogue Acts in Task-Oriented Dialogues
We consider that factors such as prosody of systems’ utterances and dialogue rhythm are important to attain a natural human-machine dialogue. However, the relations between dialo...
Noriki Fujiwara, Toshihiko Itoh, Kenji Araki
TSD
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Study on Speech with Manifest Emotions
We present a study of the prosody – seen in a broader sense – that supports the theory of the interrelationship function of speech. “Pure emotions” are meant to show a rela...
Horia-Nicolai L. Teodorescu, Silvia Monica Feraru
TSD
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Quality Deterioration Factors in Unit Selection Speech Synthesis
Abstract. The purpose of the present paper is to examine the relationships between target and concatenation costs and the quality (with focus on naturalness) of generated speech. S...
Daniel Tihelka, Jindrich Matousek, Jirí Kal...
TSD
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Information Retrieval Test Collection for Searching Spontaneous Czech Speech
Abstract. This paper describes the design of the first large-scale IR test collection built for the Czech language. The creation of this collection also happens to be very challen...
Pavel Ircing, Pavel Pecina, Douglas W. Oard, Jianq...