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ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Probablistic modelling of F0 in unvoiced regions in HMM based speech synthesis
HMM based synthesis has attracted great interest due to its compact and flexible modelling of spectral and prosodic parameters. In this approach, short term spectra, fundamental ...
Kai Yu, Tomoki Toda, Milica Gasic, Simon Keizer, F...
TASLP
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
An Integrative and Discriminative Technique for Spoken Utterance Classification
Abstract-- Traditional methods of spoken utterance classification (SUC) adopt two independently trained phases. In the first phase, an automatic speech recognition (ASR) module ret...
Sibel Yaman, Li Deng, Dong Yu, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Ac...
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
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
LREC
2010
176views Education» more  LREC 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
TTS Evaluation Campaign with a Common Spanish Database
This paper describes the first TTS evaluation campaign designed for Spanish. Seven research institutions took part in the evaluation campaign and developed a voice from a common s...
Iñaki Sainz, Eva Navas, Inma Hernáez...