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SI3D
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
An example-based motion synthesis technique for locomotion and object manipulation
We synthesize natural-looking locomotion, reaching and grasping for a virtual character in order to accomplish a wide range of movement and manipulation tasks in real time. Our vi...
Andrew W. Feng, Yuyu Xu, Ari Shapiro
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 2 months ago
An HMM trajectory tiling (HTT) approach to high quality TTS
We propose an HMM Trajectory Tiling (HTT) approach to high quality TTS, which is our entry to Blizzard Challenge 2010. In HTT, first refined HMM is trained with the Minimum Genera...
Yao Qian, Zhi-Jie Yan, Yijian Wu, Frank K. Soong, ...
KDD
2000
ACM
114views Data Mining» more  KDD 2000»
13 years 11 months ago
Learning Prosodic Patterns for Mandarin Speech Synthesis
Higher quality synthesized speech is required for widespread use of text-to-speech (TTS) technology, and prosodic pattern is the key feature that makes synthetic speech sound unna...
Yiqiang Chen, Wen Gao, Tingshao Zhu
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
An optimization algorithm of independent mean and variance parameter tying structures for HMM-based speech synthesis
This paper proposes a technique for constructing independent parameter tying structures of mean and variance in HMMbased speech synthesis. Conventionally, mean and variance parame...
Shinji Takaki, Keiichiro Oura, Yoshihiko Nankaku, ...
LREC
2008
119views Education» more  LREC 2008»
13 years 8 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...