Early speech retrieval experiments focused on news broadcasts, for which adequate Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) accuracy could be obtained. Like newspapers, news broadcasts a...
The detection of prosodic characteristics is an important aspect of both speech synthesis and speech recognition. Correct placement of pitch accents aids in more natural sounding ...
This paper takes phonetic information into account for data alignment in text-independent voice conversion. Hidden Markov Models are used for representing the phonetic structure o...
Meng Zhang, Jiaohua Tao, Jani Nurminen, Jilei Tian...