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...
Abstract-- The increasing processing power of embedded devices have created the scope for certain applications that could previously be executed in desktop environments only, to mi...
We present MARS (Multilingual Automatic tRanslation System), a research prototype speech-to-speech translation system. MARS is aimed at two-way conversational spoken language trans...
Yuqing Gao, Bowen Zhou, Zijian Diao, Jeffrey S. So...
We analyse the contribution of higher-level elements of the linguistic specification of a data-driven speech synthesiser to the naturalness of the synthetic speech which it genera...