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INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Domain adaptation and compensation for emotion detection
Inspired by the recent improvements in domain adaptation and session variability compensation techniques used for speech and speaker processing, we study their effect for emotion ...
Michelle Hewlett Sanchez, Gökhan Tür, Lu...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Vocal attractiveness of statistical speech synthesisers
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
ACL
2006
13 years 8 months ago
Learning to Say It Well: Reranking Realizations by Predicted Synthesis Quality
This paper presents a method for adapting a language generator to the strengths and weaknesses of a synthetic voice, thereby improving the naturalness of synthetic speech in a spo...
Crystal Nakatsu, Michael White
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Deep Belief Networks using discriminative features for phone recognition
Deep Belief Networks (DBNs) are multi-layer generative models. They can be trained to model windows of coefficients extracted from speech and they discover multiple layers of fea...
Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Tara N. Sainath, George Dahl...
MLMI
2005
Springer
14 years 26 days ago
The 2005 AMI System for the Transcription of Speech in Meetings
Abstract. In this paper we describe the 2005 AMI system for the transcription of speech in meetings used in the 2005 NIST RT evaluations. The system was designed for participation ...
Thomas Hain, Lukas Burget, John Dines, Giulia Gara...