Baldi, a computer-animated talking head is introduced. The quality of his visible speech has been repeatedly modified and evaluated to accurately simulate naturally talking humans...
Abstract. In this study the gesture duration and articulator velocity in consonant-vowel-transitions has been analysed using electromagnetic articulography (EMA). The receiver coil...
Dominik Bauer, Jim Kannampuzha, Phil Hoole, Bernd ...
In the EMIME project we have studied unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation. We have employed an HMM statistical framework for both speech recognition and synthesis which p...
Mikko Kurimo, William Byrne, John Dines, Philip N....
This paper presents a prosodically conditioned diphone database to be used in a Korean text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system. The diphones are prosodically conditioned in the sense...
The advent of statistical speech synthesis has enabled the unification of the basic techniques used in speech synthesis and recognition. Adaptation techniques that have been succ...
Lakshmi Saheer, Philip N. Garner, John Dines, Hui ...