method ID: texttospeech

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A Parser for Real-Time Speech Synthesis of Conversational Texts

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (1992)

DOI: nan

In this paper, we concern ourselves with an applica- tion of text-to-speech for speech-impaired, deaf, and hard of hearing people. The application is unusual because it requires real-time synthesis of …...

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Faking it: Synthetic Text-to-speech Synthesis for Under-resourced Languages – Experimental Design

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2005)

DOI: nan

Speech synthesis or text-to-speech (TTS) systems are currently available for a number of the world’s major languages, but for thousands of the world’s ‘minor’ languages no such technology is available. …...

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A joint prosody evaluation of French text-to-speech synthesis systems

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2006)

DOI: nan

AbstractThis paper reports on prosodic evaluation in the framework of the EVALDA/EvaSy project for text-to-speech (TTS) evaluation for the French language. Prosody is evaluated using a prosodic transplantation paradigm. Intonation …...

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Prosodic Annotation in a Thai Text-to-speech System

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Publication: TIPSTER (2007)

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. This paper describes a preliminary work on prosody modeling aspect of a text-to- speech system for Thai. Specifically, the model is designed to predict symbolic markers from text (i.e., …...

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Developing Speech Recognition and Synthesis Technologies to Support Computer-Aided Pronunciation Training for Chinese Learners of English

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2009)

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. We describe ongoing research in the development of speech technologies that strives to raise the efficacy of computer-aided pronunciation training, especially for Chinese learners of English. Our approach is …...

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Incorporating Speech Synthesis in the Development of a Mobile Platform for e-learning.

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2010)

DOI: nan

AbstractThis presentation and accompanying demonstration focuses on the development of a mobile platform for e-learning purposes with enhanced text-to-speech capabilities. It reports on an international consortium project entitled Mobile E-learning …...

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ProPOSEC: A Prosody and PoS Annotated Spoken English Corpus

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2010)

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AbstractWe have previously reported on ProPOSEL, a purpose-built Prosody and PoS English Lexicon compatible with the Python Natural Language ToolKit. ProPOSEC is a new corpus research resource built using this …...

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Building Text-To-Speech Voices in the Cloud

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AbstractThe AT&T VoiceBuilder provides a new tool to researchers and practitioners who want to have their voices synthesized by a high-quality commercial-grade text-to-speech system without the need to install, configure, …...

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CHULA TTS: A Modularized Text-To-Speech Framework

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Spoken and written languages evolve constantly through their everyday usages. Combining with practical expectation for automatically generating synthetic speech suitable for various domains of context, such a reason makes Text-to-Speech …...

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A Taxonomy of Specific Problem Classes in Text-to-Speech Synthesis: Comparing Commercial and Open Source Performance

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AbstractCurrent state-of-the-art speech synthesizers for domain-independent systems still struggle with the challenge of generating understandable and natural-sounding speech. This is mainly because the pronunciation of words of foreign origin, inflections …...

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Speech Synthesis of Code-Mixed Text

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AbstractMost Text to Speech (TTS) systems today assume that the input text is in a single language and is written in the same language that the text needs to be …...

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AbstractWe present a text-to-speech (TTS) system designed for the dialect of Bengali spoken in Bangladesh. This work is part of an ongoing effort to address the needs of under-resourced languages. …...

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We describe an opensource text-to-speech (TTS) voice building tool that focuses on simplicity, flexibility, and collaboration. Our tool allows anyone with basic computer skills to run voice training experiments and …...

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AbstractIt is well known that deep learning model has huge parameters and is computationally expensive, especially for embedded and mobile devices. Polyphone pronunciations selection is a basic function for Chinese …...

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Crowdsourcing Latin American Spanish for Low-Resource Text-to-Speech

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Publication: TIPSTER (2020)

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AbstractIn this paper we present a multidialectal corpus approach for building a text-to-speech voice for a new dialect in a language with existing resources, focusing on various South American dialects …...

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Development and Evaluation of Speech Synthesis Corpora for Latvian

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AbstractText to speech (TTS) systems are necessary for all languages to ensure accessibility and availability of digital language services. Recent advances in neural speech synthesis have eText to speech (TTS) …...

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MaSS: A Large and Clean Multilingual Corpus of Sentence-aligned Spoken Utterances Extracted from the Bible

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AbstractThe CMU Wilderness Multilingual Speech Dataset (Black, 2019) is a newly published multilingual speech dataset based on recorded readings of the New Testament. It provides data to build Automatic Speech …...

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Empathic Machines: Using Intermediate Features as Levers to Emulate Emotions in Text-To-Speech Systems

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AbstractWe present a method to control the emotional prosody of Text to Speech (TTS) systems by using phoneme-level intermediate features (pitch, energy, and duration) as levers. As a key idea, …...

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AbstractAs post-editing of machine translation (PEMT) is becoming one of the most dominant services offered by the language services industry (LSI), efforts are being made to support provision of this …...

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Low-Resource Multilingual and Zero-Shot Multispeaker TTS

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AbstractWhile neural methods for text-to-speech (TTS) have shown great advances in modeling multiple speakers, even in zero-shot settings, the amount of data needed for those approaches is generally not feasible …...

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Enhancing Automatic Speech Recognition Performance Through Multi-Speaker Text-to-Speech

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In this study, we present a novel ap- proach to enhancing the performance of our Hakka Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model through the strategic use of Text-to-Speech (TTS) amplification tech- …...

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Generating Synthetic Speech from SpokenVocab for Speech Translation

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AbstractTraining end-to-end speech translation (ST) systems requires sufficiently large-scale data, which is unavailable for most language pairs and domains. One practical solution to the data scarcity issue is to convert …...

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