The detection of prosodic characteristics is an important aspect of both speech synthesis and speech recognition. Correct placement of pitch accents aids in more natural sounding ...
This paper examines the phenomenon of consonant spreading in Arabic stems. Each spreading involves a local surface copying of an underlying consonant, and, in certain phonological...
English bed This paper describes a framework for multilingual /bEd/ inheritance-based lexical representation which al- rib lows sharing of information across languages at /rib/ all...
The objective of this work is to disambiguate transducers which have the following form: T = R D and to be able to apply the determinization algorithm described in (Mohri, 1997)....
N. Smaili, Patrick Cardinal, Gilles Boulianne, Pie...
This paper outlines ProSynth, an approach to speech synthesis which takes a rich linguistic structure as central to the generation of natural-sounding speech. We start from the as...
Richard Ogden, Sarah Hawkins, Jill House, Mark Huc...