We explore automated discovery of topicallycoherent segments in speech or text sequences. We give two new discriminative topic segmentation algorithms which employ a new measure o...
We describe our contribution to the Generation Challenge 2010 for the tasks of Named Entity Recognition and coreference detection (GREC-NER). To extract the NE and the referring e...
Decision tree-based context clustering is the essential but timeconsuming part of building HMM-based speech synthesis systems. The widely used implementation of this technique is ...
In speaker-adaptive HMM-based speech synthesis, there are a few speakers whose synthetic speech sounds worse than that of other speakers, despite having the same amount of adaptat...
Junichi Yamagishi, Oliver Watts, Simon King, Bela ...
The paper investigates a new method to solve concatenation problems of Mandarin speech synthesis which is based on the hybrid approach of HMM-based speech synthesis and unit selec...