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COST
2009
Springer
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15 years 4 months ago
Optimizing Phonetic Encoding for Viennese Unit Selection Speech Synthesis
While developing lexical resources for a particular language variety (Viennese), we experimented with a set of 5 different phonetic encodings, termed phone sets, used for unit sel...
Michael Pucher, Friedrich Neubarth, Volker Strom
GW
2007
Springer
85views Biometrics» more  GW 2007»
15 years 3 months ago
On the Parametrization of Clapping
Abstract. For a Reactive Virtual Trainer(RVT), subtle timing and lifelikeness of motion is of primary importance. To allow for reactivity, movement adaptation, like a change of tem...
Herwin van Welbergen, Zsófia Ruttkay
HCI
2007
14 years 11 months ago
Discrimination and Perception of the Acoustic Rendition of Texts by Blind People
This paper reports on the results from a series of psychoacoustic experiments in the field of the auditory representation of texts via synthetic speech which comprise similar acous...
Vassilis Argyropoulos, Konstantinos Papadopoulos, ...
LREC
2008
69views Education» more  LREC 2008»
14 years 11 months ago
Acquiring Pronunciation Data for a Placenames Lexicon in a Less-Resourced Language
A new procedure is described for generating pronunciations for a dictionary of place-names in a less-resourced language (Welsh, spoken in Wales, UK). The method is suitable for us...
Briony Williams, Rhys James Jones
NIPS
2007
14 years 11 months ago
A Probabilistic Approach to Language Change
We present a probabilistic approach to language change in which word forms are represented by phoneme sequences that undergo stochastic edits along the branches of a phylogenetic ...
Alexandre Bouchard-Côté, Percy Liang,...