Sciweavers

16 search results - page 3 / 4
» Learning Prosodic Patterns for Mandarin Speech Synthesis
Sort
View
MLMI
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Mixed-Lingual Phonological Component Which Drives the Statistical Prosody Control of a Polyglot TTS Synthesis System
A polyglot text-to-speech synthesis system which is able to read aloud mixed-lingual text has first of all to derive the correct pronunciation. This is achieved with an accurate m...
Harald Romsdorfer, Beat Pfister, René Beutl...
TSD
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Experimental Evaluation of Tree-Based Algorithms for Intonational Breaks Representation
Abstract. The prosodic specification of an utterance to be spoken by a Textto-Speech synthesis system can be devised in break indices, pitch accents and boundary tones. In particu...
Panagiotis Zervas, Gerasimos Xydas, Nikos Fakotaki...
AROBOTS
2002
102views more  AROBOTS 2002»
13 years 10 months ago
Recognition of Affective Communicative Intent in Robot-Directed Speech
Human speech provides a natural and intuitive interface for both communicating with humanoid robots as well as for teaching them. In general, the acoustic pattern of speech contain...
Cynthia Breazeal, Lijin Aryananda
CSL
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A study in machine learning from imbalanced data for sentence boundary detection in speech
Enriching speech recognition output with sentence boundaries improves its human readability and enables further processing by downstream language processing modules. We have const...
Yang Liu, Nitesh V. Chawla, Mary P. Harper, Elizab...
LREC
2010
236views Education» more  LREC 2010»
14 years 8 days ago
ProPOSEC: A Prosody and PoS Annotated Spoken English Corpus
We have previously reported on ProPOSEL, a purpose-built Prosody and PoS English Lexicon compatible with the Python Natural Language ToolKit. ProPOSEC is a new corpus research res...
Claire Brierley, Eric Atwell