In this paper, we describe a statistical approach to both an articulatory-to-acoustic mapping and an acoustic-to-articulatory inversion mapping without using phonetic information....
This paper considers the enhancement of noisy speech. Earlier studies have revealed that an approach that enhances spectral envelopes by using prior knowledge about the all-pole (...
Takuya Yoshioka, Tomohiro Nakatani, Hiroshi G. Oku...
In speech interfaces users must be aware what can be done with the system – in other words, the system must provide information to help the users to know what to say. We have ad...
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Mikko Hartikainen, Markku Turun...
This paper describes a source modeling method for hidden Markov model (HMM) based speech synthesis for improved naturalness. A speech corpus is rst decomposed into the glottal sou...
Tuomo Raitio, Antti Suni, Hannu Pulakka, Martti Va...
The detection of laughter in conversational interaction presents an important challenge in meeting understanding, important primarily because laughter is predictive of the emotion...