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ACL
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Learning Intonation Rules for Concept to Speech Generation
In this paper, we report on an effort to provide a general-purpose spoken language generation tool for Concept-to-Speech (CTS) applications by extending a widely used text generat...
Shimei Pan, Kathleen McKeown
CSL
2000
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
ProSynth: an integrated prosodic approach to device-independent, natural-sounding speech synthesis
This paper outlines ProSynth, an approach to speech synthesis which takes a rich linguistic structure as central to the generation of natural-sounding speech. We start from the as...
Richard Ogden, Sarah Hawkins, Jill House, Mark Huc...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 4 months ago
The role of higher-level linguistic features in HMM-based speech synthesis
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...
Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King
CICLING
2006
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Predicting Dialogue Acts from Prosodic Information
In this paper, the influence of intonation to recognize dialogue acts from speech is assessed. Assessment is based on an empirical approach: manually tagged data from a spoken-dial...
Sergio Rafael Coria Olguin, Luis Alberto Pineda Co...
CSFW
2011
IEEE
12 years 9 months ago
The Complexity of Quantitative Information Flow Problems
—In this paper, we investigate the computational complexity of quantitative information flow (QIF) problems. Information-theoretic quantitative relaxations of noninterference (b...
Pavol Cerný, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Thomas ...