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ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Synthesis of filled pauses based on a disfluent speech model
In the present paper we present a new approach to the synthesis of filled pauses. The problem is tackled from the point of view of disfluent speech synthesis. Based on the synth...
Jordi Adell, Antonio Bonafonte, David Escudero Man...
LREC
2008
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14 years 10 days ago
Corpus and Voices for Catalan Speech Synthesis
In this paper we describe the design and production of Catalan database for building synthetic voices. Two speakers, with 10 hours per speaker, have recorded 10 hours of speech. T...
Antonio Bonafonte, Jordi Adell, Ignasi Esquerra, S...
TSD
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Filled Pauses in Speech Synthesis: Towards Conversational Speech
Speech synthesis techniques have already reached a high level of naturalness. However, they are often evaluated on text reading tasks. New applications will request for conversatio...
Jordi Adell, Antonio Bonafonte, David Escudero Man...