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ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Vocal attractiveness of statistical speech synthesisers
Our previous analysis of speaker-adaptive HMM-based speech synthesis methods suggested that there are two possible reasons why average voices can obtain higher subjective scores t...
Sandra Andraszewicz, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King
LREC
2008
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13 years 9 months ago
Corpus and Voices for Catalan Speech Synthesis
In this paper we describe the design and production of Catalan database for building synthetic voices. Two speakers, with 10 hours per speaker, have recorded 10 hours of speech. T...
Antonio Bonafonte, Jordi Adell, Ignasi Esquerra, S...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Roles of the average voice in speaker-adaptive HMM-based speech synthesis
In speaker-adaptive HMM-based speech synthesis, there are a few speakers whose synthetic speech sounds worse than that of other speakers, despite having the same amount of adaptat...
Junichi Yamagishi, Oliver Watts, Simon King, Bela ...
JISE
2011
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13 years 2 months ago
Mandarin Singing-voice Synthesis Using an HNM Based Scheme
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...
Hung-Yan Gu, Huang-Liang Liao
ACL
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Learning to Say It Well: Reranking Realizations by Predicted Synthesis Quality
This paper presents a method for adapting a language generator to the strengths and weaknesses of a synthetic voice, thereby improving the naturalness of synthetic speech in a spo...
Crystal Nakatsu, Michael White