In this paper, HNM (harmonic plus noise model) is enhanced and used to design a scheme for synthesizing Mandarin singing voice. Enhancements made include synthesizing signals with...
This paper presents preliminary work on building a system able to synthesize concurrently the speech signal and a 3D animation of the speaker's face. This is done by concaten...
—This paper presents an interactive system for creating painterly animation from video sequences. Previous approaches to painterly animation typically emphasize either purely aut...
Unit selection synthesis inventories have coverage issues, which lead to missing syllable or diphone units. In the conventional back-off strategy of substituting the missing unit ...
Speech synthesis techniques have already reached a high level of naturalness. However, they are often evaluated on text reading tasks. New applications will request for conversatio...
Jordi Adell, Antonio Bonafonte, David Escudero Man...