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ICASSP
2011
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Using F0 to constrain the unit selection Viterbi network
The goal of the work described here is to limit the computation needed in unit selection Viterbi search for text-to-speech synthesis. The broader goal is to improve speech quality...
Alistair Conkie, Ann K. Syrdal
TVCG
2012
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13 years 1 days ago
A Statistical Quality Model for Data-Driven Speech Animation
—In recent years, data-driven speech animation approaches have achieved significant successes in terms of animation quality. However, how to automatically evaluate the realism o...
Xiaohan Ma, Zhigang Deng
IVA
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
The CereVoice Characterful Speech Synthesiser SDK
CereProc R Ltd. have recently released a beta version of a commercial unit selection synthesiser featuring XML control of speech style. The system is freely available for academic ...
Matthew P. Aylett, Christopher J. Pidcock
INTERSPEECH
2010
14 years 4 months ago
Excitation modeling based on waveform interpolation for HMM-based speech synthesis
It is generally known that a well-designed excitation produces high quality signals in hidden Markov model (HMM)-based speech synthesis systems. This paper proposes a novel techni...
June Sig Sung, Doo Hwa Hong, Kyung Hwan Oh, Nam So...
TSD
2010
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Listening-Test-Based Annotation of Communicative Functions for Expressive Speech Synthesis
This paper is focused on the evaluation of listening test that was realized with a view to objectively annotate expressive speech recordings and further develop a limited domain ex...
Martin Gruber, Jindrich Matousek