This paper proposes a technique for improving tone correctness in Thai speech synthesis based on an average voice model trained with nonprofessional speech corpus. The proposed te...
In this paper, we present new results from our research into the vulnerability of a speaker verification (SV) system to synthetic speech. We use a HMM-based speech synthesizer, w...
The difference between native speakers' and non-native speakers' naturalness judgements of synthetic speech is investigated. Similar/difference judgements are analysed v...
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...
Ya Li, Jianhua Tao, Meng Zhang, Shifeng Pan, Xiaoy...
: All speech produced by humans includes information about the speaker, including conveying the emotional state of the speaker. It is thus desirable to include vocal affect in any ...
In this paper, we investigate imposture using synthetic speech. Although this problem was first examined over a decade ago, dramatic improvements in both speaker verification (S...
Phillip L. De Leon, Vijendra Raj Apsingekar, Micha...