Word discovery is the task of discovering and collecting occurrences of repeating words in the absence of prior acoustic and linguistic knowledge, or training material. The capabi...
Abstract. This paper presents an expressive gesture model that generates communicative gestures accompanying speech for the humanoid robot Nao. The research work focuses mainly on ...
Our previous analysis of speaker-adaptive HMM-based speech synthesis methods suggested that there are two possible reasons why average voices can obtain higher subjective scores t...
Sandra Andraszewicz, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King
Parameter trajectory generation for HMM-based speech synthesis is practically achieved using only fixed-point arithmetic with 32-bit integers. Since processors for embedded devic...
Although technology for communication has evolved tremendously over the past decades, mobility impaired individuals still face many difficulties interacting with communication serv...
Carlos Galinho Pires, Fernando Miguel Pinto, Eduar...