EVALITA 2007, the first edition of the initiative devoted to the evaluation of Natural Language Processing tools for Italian, provided a shared framework where participants' ...
In this paper, we report on an effort to provide a general-purpose spoken language generation tool for Concept-to-Speech (CTS) applications by extending a widely used text generat...
In this paper we report our recent development of an end-to-end integrative design methodology for speech translation. Specifically, a novel decision function is proposed based o...
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have been developed only for a very limited number of the estimated 7,000 languages in the world. In order to avoid the evolvement of a ...
Speech synthesis by unit selection requires the segmentation of a large single speaker high quality recording. Automatic speech recognition techniques, e.g. Hidden Markov Models (...
Pierre Lanchantin, Andrew C. Morris, Xavier Rodet,...