This paper outlines ProSynth, an approach to speech synthesis which takes a rich linguistic structure as central to the generation of natural-sounding speech. We start from the as...
Richard Ogden, Sarah Hawkins, Jill House, Mark Huc...
This study is aimed at investigating whether automatic phonetic transcription procedures can approximate manual transcriptions typically delivered with contemporary large speech c...
Christophe Van Bael, Lou Boves, Henk van den Heuve...
Automatic processing of medical dictations poses a significant challenge. We approach the problem by introducing a statistical framework capable of identifying types and boundarie...
Unit selection text-to-speech systems currently produce very natural synthesized phrases by concatenating speech segments from a large database. Recently, increasing demand for de...
Spoken dialogue managers have benefited from using stochastic planners such as Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). However, so far, MDPs do not handle well noisy and ambiguous speec...