Intelligibility predictors tell us a great deal about human speech perception, in particular which acoustic factors strongly effect human behavior, and which do not. A particular...
Bryce E. Lobdell, Jont B. Allen, Mark Hasegawa-Joh...
This paper describes our work on developing corpora of three varieties of Viennese for unit selection speech synthesis. The synthetic voices for Viennese varieties, implemented wi...
Michael Pucher, Friedrich Neubarth, Volker Strom, ...
We present a novel automatic procedure to analyze articulatory setting (AS) or basis of articulation using realtime magnetic resonance images (rt-MRI) of the human vocal tract rec...
Vikram Ramanarayanan, Dani Byrd, Louis Goldstein, ...
In this paper, we demonstrate the use of state-of-the-art speech technology to transform speech from a source speaker to mimic a particular target speaker with the intention of pr...
Esther Klabbers, Alexander Kain, Jan P. H. van San...
Recognising continuous speech in a second language is often unexpectedly difficult, as the operation of segmenting speech is so attuned to native-language structure. We report the...