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TSD
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
The VoiceTRAN Speech-to-Speech Communicator
The paper presents the design concept of the VoiceTRAN Communicator that integrates speech recognition, machine translation and text-to-speech synthesis using the DARPA Galaxy arch...
Jerneja Zganec-Gros, France Mihelic, Tomaz Erjavec...
TSD
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Experimental Evaluation of Tree-Based Algorithms for Intonational Breaks Representation
Abstract. The prosodic specification of an utterance to be spoken by a Textto-Speech synthesis system can be devised in break indices, pitch accents and boundary tones. In particu...
Panagiotis Zervas, Gerasimos Xydas, Nikos Fakotaki...
TSD
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Mapping the Speech Signal onto Electromagnetic Articulography Trajectories Using Support Vector Regression
Abstract. We report work on the mapping between the speech signal and articulatory trajectories from the MOCHA database. Contrasting previous works that used Neural Networks for th...
Asterios Toutios, Konstantinos G. Margaritis
TSD
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Explicit Duration Modelling in HMM/ANN Hybrids
László Tóth, András Ko...
TSD
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Diction Based Prosody Modeling in Table-to-Speech Synthesis
Transferring a structure from the visual modality to the aural one presents a difficult challenge. In this work we are experimenting with prosody modeling for the synthesized speec...
Dimitris Spiliotopoulos, Gerasimos Xydas, Georgios...
TSD
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Passage Retrieval System for Multilingual Question Answering
In this paper we present a new Question Answering (QA) system based on redundancy and a new Passage Retrieval (PR) method oriented to QA. We suppose that in a large enough document...
José Manuel Gómez Soriano, Manuel Mo...
TSD
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Automatic Acquisition of a Slovak Lexicon from a Raw Corpus
This paper presents an automatic methodology we used in an experiment to acquire a morphological lexicon for the Slovak language, and the lexicon we obtained. This methodology exte...
Benoît Sagot
TSD
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Formal Prosodic Structures and Their Application in NLP
Abstract. A formal prosody description framework is introduced together with its relation to language semantics and NLP. The framework incorporates deep prosodic structures based o...
Jan Romportl, Jindrich Matousek
TSD
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Morphological Meanings in the Prague Dependency Treebank 2.0
Magda Razímová, Zdenek Zabokrtsk&yac...
TSD
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Robust Rule-Based Method for Automatic Break Assignment in Russian Texts
In this paper a new rule-based approach to break assignment for the Russian language is discussed. It is a flexible and robust method of segmentation of texts in Russian in prosod...
Ilya Oparin