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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...