Abstract. This paper brings together the development of the first Text-toSpeech (TTS) system for Sinhala using the Festival framework and practical applications of it. Construction...
Many state-of-the-art statistical parsers for English can be viewed as Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars (PCFGs) acquired from treebanks consisting of phrase-structure trees enri...
We present a study of the prosody – seen in a broader sense – that supports the theory of the interrelationship function of speech. “Pure emotions” are meant to show a rela...
Abstract. Pronunciation by analogy (PbA) is a data-driven approach to phonetic transcription that generates pronunciations for unknown words by exploiting the phonological knowledg...
Tasanawan Soonklang, Robert I. Damper, Yannick Mar...
Abstract. Clustering is often considered the most important unsupervised learning problem and several clustering algorithms have been proposed over the years. Many of these algorit...
Previously we have shown that ASR technology can be used to objectively evaluate pathologic speech. Here we report on progress for routine clinical use: 1) We introduce an easy-to-...
The paper gives a brief summarisation of preparation and recording of a phonetically and prosodically rich speech corpus for Czech unit selection text-to-speech synthesis. Special ...
Abstract. This paper deals with the problem of speech waveform polarity. As the polarity of speech waveform can influence the performance of pitch marking algorithms (see Sec. 4),...