Decision tree-based context clustering is the essential but timeconsuming part of building HMM-based speech synthesis systems. The widely used implementation of this technique is ...
Despite the ready availability of digital recording technology and the continually decreasing cost of digital storage, browsing audio recordings remains a tedious task. This paper...
Sunil Vemuri, Philip DeCamp, Walter Bender, Chris ...
This paper presents a set of corpus-based text-to-speech synthesis technologies for Mandarin Chinese. A large speech corpus produced by a single speaker is used, and the speech out...
In the EMIME project we have studied unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation. We have employed an HMM statistical framework for both speech recognition and synthesis which p...
Mikko Kurimo, William Byrne, John Dines, Philip N....
We investigate how fantasy, curiosity and challenge contribute to the user experience in multimodal dialogue computer games for preschool children. For this purpose, an on-line mu...