A hybrid signal-and-link-parametric approach to speech quality measurement for voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) communications is described. Connection parameters are used to de...
Speech synthesis options on assistive communication devices are very limited and do not reflect the user’s vocal quality or personality. Previous work suggests that speakers wit...
The development of a speech translation (ST) system is costly, largely because it is expensive to collect parallel data. A new language pair is typically only considered in the af...
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...
We investigate genre effects on the task of automatic sentence segmentation, focusing on two important domains – broadcast news (BN) and broadcast conversation (BC). We employ a...