TSD
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2004
Springer
A significant challenge in Text-to-Speech (TtS) synthesis is the formulation of the prosodic structures (phrase breaks, pitch accents, phrase accents and boundary tones) of uttera...
TSD
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2004
Springer
Discourse in formal domains, such as mathematics, is characterized by a mixture of telegraphic natural language and embedded formal expressions. Little is known about the suitabil...
TSD
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2004
Springer
Two sets of linguistic features are developed: The first one to estimate if a single step in a dialogue between a human being and a machine is successful or not. The second set to...
TSD
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2004
Springer
TSD
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2004
Springer
We investigate techniques for acoustic modeling in automatic recognition of context-independent phoneme strings from the TIMIT database. The baseline phoneme recognizer is based on...
TSD
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2004
Springer
Abstract. After the years of hesitation the conservative Slovak telecommunication market seems to become conscious of the need of voice driven services. In the last year, all the t...
TSD
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2004
Springer
Abstract. A formal prosody model is proposed together with its application in a text-to-speech system. The model is based on a generative of abstract prosodic functionally involved...
TSD
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2004
Springer
In this paper a speaker adaptation methodology is proposed, which first automatically determines a number of speaker clusters in the training material, then estimates the paramete...
TSD
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2004
Springer
This paper presents a new unit selection process for Very Low Bit Rate speech encoding around 500 bits/sec. The encoding is based on speech recognition and speech synthesis technol...
TSD
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2004
Springer
In this paper we report on the acquisition and content of a new database intended for developing audio-visual speech recognition systems. This database supports a speaker dependen...