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ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Template-based methods for sentence generation and speech synthesis
Here we propose a sentence-generation method using templates that can be applied to create a speech database. This method requires the recording of a relatively small sentence set...
Hiroyuki Segi, Reiko Takou, Nobumasa Seiyama, Tohr...
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Control of prosodic focus in corpus-based generation of fundamental frequency contours of Japanese based on the generation proce
A total corpus-based process of generating prosodic features from text is developed. The process first predicts pauses and phone durations, and then generates F0 contours. Since F...
Keiko Ochi, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
ICMCS
2000
IEEE
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14 years 4 days ago
Automatic Selection of Visemes for Image-Based Visual Speech Synthesis
An image-based approach provides an efficient way for visual speech synthesis. In an image-based visual speech synthesis system, a few lip images, namely visemes, are used for ge...
Jie Yang, Jing Xiao, Max Ritter
IEICET
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Generating F0 Contours by Statistical Manipulation of Natural F0 Shapes
This paper proposes a method of generating F0 contours from natural F0 segmental shapes for speech synthesis. The extracted shapes of F0 units are basically kept unchanged, by eli...
Takashi Saito
KI
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Generation of Sentence Parse Trees Using Parts of Speech
This paper proposes a new corpus-based approach for deriving syntactic structures and generating parse trees of natural language sentences. The parts of speech (word categories) of...
Tunga Güngör