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...
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...
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...
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...
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...