Virtual conversational agents are supposed to combine speech with nonverbal modalities for intelligible and believeable utterances. However, the automatic synthesis of coverbal ge...
This paper presents results on the selection of application scenarios and persona design for sociolect and dialect speech synthesis. These results are derived from a listening expe...
This paper introduces City Browser, a prototype multimodal, conversational, spoken language interface for automotive navigational aid and information access. A study designed to e...
Alexander Gruenstein, Bruce Mehler, Bryan Reimer, ...
⎯The optimum maximum voiced frequency (MVF) estimation-based two-band excitation for hidden Markov model-based speech synthesis is presented. An analysis-by-synthesis scheme is a...
Distributed clientisewer models are becoming increasingly prevalent in multimedia systems and advanced user interface design. A multimedia application, for example, may play and r...