ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
2012
We present a component for incremental speech synthesis (iSS) and a set of applications that demonstrate its capabilities. This component can be used to increase the responsivity ...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2011
IEEE
Currently, the statistical framework based on Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) plays a relevant role in speech synthesis, while voice conversion systems based on Gaussian Mixture Model...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2011
IEEE
This paper provides an analysis of the impacts of machine translation and speech synthesis on speech-to-speech translation systems. The speech-to-speech translation system consist...
UAIS
2010
13 years 7 months ago
2010
Abstract Text documents usually embody visually oriented meta-information in the form of complex visual structures, such as tables. The semantics involved in such objects result in...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 7 months ago
2010
It is generally known that a well-designed excitation produces high quality signals in hidden Markov model (HMM)-based speech synthesis systems. This paper proposes a novel techni...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 7 months ago
2010
Recently, an increasing attention has been paid to Mandarin word stress which is important for improving the naturalness of speech synthesis. Most of the research on Mandarin spee...
SPEECH
2011
13 years 7 months ago
2011
This paper first introduces a newly-recorded high quality Romanian speech corpus designed for speech synthesis, called “RSS”, along with Romanian front-end text processing mo...
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2010
IEEE
In this paper we revisit some basic configuration choices of HMMbased speech synthesis, such as waveform sampling rate, auditory frequency warping scale and the logarithmic scali...
IEICET
2007
14 years 11 days ago
2007
⎯The optimum maximum voiced frequency (MVF) estimation-based two-band excitation for hidden Markov model-based speech synthesis is presented. An analysis-by-synthesis scheme is a...
MIS
2006
Springer
14 years 11 days ago
2006
Springer
LiveMail is a prototype system that allows mobile subscribers to communicate using personalized 3D face models created from images taken by their phone cameras. The user takes a s...