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ACL
2006
13 years 9 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
ACL
1997
13 years 9 months ago
Contrastive Accent in a Data-to-Speech System
Being able to predict the placement of contrastive accent is essential for the assignment of correct accentuation patterns in spoken language generation. I discuss two approaches ...
Mariët Theune
VLC
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
Proposing a speech to gesture translation architecture for Spanish deaf people
This article describes an architecture for translating speech into Spanish Sign Language (SSL). The architecture proposed is made up of four modules: speech recognizer, semantic a...
Rubén San Segundo, Juan Manuel Montero, Jav...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Mining and Modeling Relations between Formal and Informal Chinese Phrases from Web Corpora
We present a novel method for discovering and modeling the relationship between informal Chinese expressions (including colloquialisms and instant-messaging slang) and their forma...
Zhifei Li, David Yarowsky
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
An embodied conversational agent as a lifestyle advisor
Persistent Embodied Conversational Agents (ECA) can be used to assist users in their daily activities. We introduce the Health and Fitness Companion (HFC), which is a conversation...
Cameron Smith, Daniel Charlton, Li Zhang, Marc Cav...