: The primary focus of this paper is accessibility barriers for visually impaired people and people with dyslexia. Due to their disability a segment of these people have limited ac...
This paper describes a source modeling method for hidden Markov model (HMM) based speech synthesis for improved naturalness. A speech corpus is rst decomposed into the glottal sou...
Tuomo Raitio, Antti Suni, Hannu Pulakka, Martti Va...
This paper presents preliminary work on building a system able to synthesize concurrently the speech signal and a 3D animation of the speaker's face. This is done by concaten...
The advent of statistical speech synthesis has enabled the unification of the basic techniques used in speech synthesis and recognition. Adaptation techniques that have been succ...
Lakshmi Saheer, Philip N. Garner, John Dines, Hui ...
This paper proposes a method to improve the quality delivered by statistical parametric speech synthesizers. For this, we use a codebook of pitch-synchronous residual frames, so a...
Thomas Drugman, Alexis Moinet, Thierry Dutoit, Geo...