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For speech synthesis systems that transform text materials into voice data, correctness and naturalness are the crucial measures of performance, the latter gaining more emphasis recently. In order to make …...

Natural Language Generation (NLG) systems often use a pipeline architecture for sequen- tial decision making. Recent studies how- ever have shown that treating NLG decisions jointly rather than in isolation …...

We present a method for improving the perceived nat- uralness of corpus-based speech synthesizers. It con- sists in removing pronounced pitch peaks in the origi- nal recordings, which typically lead …...

This paper proposes an architecture for an open-domain conversational system and evaluates an implemented system. The proposed architecture is fully composed of modules based on natu- ral language processing techniques. …...

Natural language generation (NLG) is a critical component of spoken dialogue and it has a significant impact both on usabil- ity and perceived quality. Most NLG sys- tems in common …...

AbstractRecently Wen et al. (2015) have proposed a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) approach to the generation of utterances from dialog acts, and shown that although their model requires less effort …...

AbstractThe timings of spoken response offsets in human dialogue have been shown to vary based on contextual elements of the dialogue. We propose neural models that simulate the distributions of …...

AbstractResearch shows that natural language processing models are generally considered to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks; but recent work has drawn attention to the issue of validating these adversarial inputs …...

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 …...

AbstractThis paper describes the motivation and development of speech synthesis systems for the purposes of language revitalization. By building speech synthesis systems for three Indigenous languages spoken in Canada, Kanien’kéha, …...