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SPEECH
2010
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14 years 8 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...
TSD
2007
Springer
15 years 4 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...
LREC
2010
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14 years 11 months ago
Vergina: A Modern Greek Speech Database for Speech Synthesis
The present paper outlines the Vergina speech database, which was developed in support of research and development of corpus-based unit selection and statistical parametric speech...
Alexandros Lazaridis, Theodoros Kostoulas, Todor G...
INTERSPEECH
2010
14 years 4 months ago
Speaker and language adaptive training for HMM-based polyglot speech synthesis
This paper proposes a technique for speaker and language adaptive training for HMM-based polyglot speech synthesis. Language-specific context-dependencies in the system are captur...
Heiga Zen
LREC
2008
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14 years 11 months ago
An Automatic Close Copy Speech Synthesis Tool for Large-Scale Speech Corpus Evaluation
The production of rich multilingual speech corpus resources on a large scale is a requirement for many linguistic, phonetic and technological tasks, in both research and applicati...
Dafydd Gibbon, Jolanta Bachan