INFORMATICALT
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
This paper presents the Croatian context-dependent acoustic modelling used in speech recognition and in speech synthesis. The proposed acoustic model is based on context-dependent ...
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2010
IEEE
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...
LREC
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Research activity on the Portuguese language for speech synthesis and recognition has suffered from a considerable lack of human and material resources. This has raised some obsta...
LREC
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
This paper describes our work on developing corpora of three varieties of Viennese for unit selection speech synthesis. The synthetic voices for Viennese varieties, implemented wi...
COST
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Springer
This paper presents results on the selection of application scenarios and persona design for sociolect and dialect speech synthesis. These results are derived from a listening expe...
ASSETS
2006
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
2006
ACM
Current speech synthesis technology is difficult to understand in everyday noise situations. Although there is a significant body of work on how humans modify their speech in nois...
NN
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
Abstract. Voice quality has been defined as the characteristic auditory colouring of an individual's voice, derived from a variety of laryngeal and supralaryngeal features and...
ADS
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
Laughter is a powerful means of emotion expression which has not yet been used in speech synthesis. The current paper reports on a pilot study in which differently created types of...
ADS
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
Past attempts to model emotions for speech synthesis have focused on extreme, “basic” emotion categories. The present paper suggests an alternative representation of emotional ...
ADS
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
This paper describes an initial approach to emotional speech synthesis in Catalan based on a diphone concatenation TTS system. The main goal of this work is to develop a simple pro...