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ACL
2006
13 years 11 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
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
13 years 1 months ago
A trend estimation algorithm for singing pitch detection in musical recordings
Detecting pitch values for singing voice in the presence of music accompaniment is challenging but useful for many applications. We propose a trend estimation algorithm to detect ...
Chao-Ling Hsu, DeLiang Wang, Jyh-Shing Roger Jang
MOBIQUITOUS
2005
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
An Assessment of the Audio Codec Performance in Voice over WLAN (VoWLAN) Systems
In this paper we present results of experimental investigation into the performance of three audio codecs (ITU-T G.711, G.723.1, and G.729A) under varying load conditions on a Voi...
Miroslaw Narbutt, Mark Davis
FECS
2008
148views Education» more  FECS 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
Net4Voice - New Technologies for voice-converting in barrier-free learning environment
- Net4Voice project consists in testing voice recognition techniques and methods within learning contexts. The need to support learning process with non traditional technologies de...
Raffaella Primiani, Daniela Tibaldi, Luca Garlasch...
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Can voice quality improve mandarin tone recognition?
We investigate several measures of voice quality (VQ) to improve tone recognition in Mandarin Chinese. We find that band energy measures such as Spectral Balance (Sluijter and va...
Dinoj Surendran, Gina-Anne Levow