This paper proposes a method for automatically inserting commas into Japanese texts. In Japanese sentences, commas play an important role in explicitly separating the constituents...
Ambiguity in the output is a concern for NLG in general. This paper considers the case of structural ambiguity in spoken language generation. We present an algorithm which inserts ...
In this paper, we present a new approach for the speech synthesis, in which speech utterances are synthesized using the parameters of spectro-modeling function (Multiple function)...
A major factor which causes a deterioration in speech quality in HMM-based speech synthesis is the use of a simple delta pulse signal to generate the excitation of voiced speech. ...
Emotion recognition from speech plays an important role in developing affective and intelligent systems. This study investigates sentence-level emotion recognition. We propose to ...