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A central problem in speech synthesis with unre- stricted vocabulary is the automatic derivation of correct pronunciation from the graphemic form of a text. The software module GRAPHON was developed …...

Prosodic structure and syntactic structure are not identical; neither are they unrelated. Knowing when and how the two eorrespoud could yield better quality speech synthesis, could aid in the disambiguation …...

We present results of a study of the relationship between intonational features including pitch range, timing, and amplitude and aspects of discourse structure defined in terms of Grosz and Sidner's …...

Preparation, recording, segmentation and pitch labelling of Slovenian diphone inventories are described. A special user friendly intert'ace package was developed in order to facilitate these operations. As acquisition of a …...

We present an operable definition of focus which is argued to be of a cognito-pragmatic nature and explore how it is determined in discourse in a formalized manner. For this …...

AbstractWeighted automata and transducers are used in a variety of applications ranging from automatic speech recognition and synthesis to computational biology. They give a unifying framework for the representation of …...

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. …...

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 …...

The speech fundamental frequency (henceforth F0) contour plays an important role in expressing the affective information of an utterance. The most popular F0 modeling approaches mainly use the concept of …...

. This work is part of a large research project entitled "Oreillodule" aimed at developing tools for automatic speech recognition, translation, and synthesis for Arabic language. Our attention has mainly …...

Syllables play an important role in speech synthesis and recognition. We present sev- eral different approaches to the syllabifica- tion of phonemes. We investigate approaches based on linguistic theories of …...

AbstractThis paper describes an open source voice creation toolkit that supports the creation of unit selection and HMM-based voices, for the MARY (Modular Architecture for Research on speech Synthesis) TTS …...

Segmental evaluation of HTS HTS is a parametric speech synthesis system based on the use of Hidden Markov Models (HMM). HTS is now widely used but very few studies have …...

Prosodic variations in unit-based speech synthesis: the example of interrogative sentences This paper proposes an automatic method to increase the number of possible prosodic variations in non-uniform unit-based speech synthesis. …...

AbstractWe propose two models for verbalizing numbers, a key component in speech recognition and synthesis systems. The first model uses an end-to-end recurrent neural network. The second model, drawing inspiration …...

AbstractThis work proposes a new confidence measure for evaluating text-to-speech alignment systems outputs, which is a key component for many applications, such as semi-automatic corpus anonymization, lips syncing, film dubbing, …...

AbstractIn this article, we discuss which text, speech, and image technologies have been developed, and would be feasible to develop, for the approximately 60 Indigenous languages spoken in Canada. In …...

AbstractWe present a resource for computational experiments on Mapudungun, a polysynthetic indigenous language spoken in Chile with upwards of 200 thousand speakers. We provide 142 hours of culturally significant conversations …...

AbstractIn this paper, we consider the task of digitally voicing silent speech, where silently mouthed words are converted to audible speech based on electromyography (EMG) sensor measurements that capture muscle …...

AbstractIn this paper we present the first model for directly synthesizing fluent, natural-sounding spoken audio captions for images that does not require natural language text as an intermediate representation or …...

AbstractThis paper presents the AiRO learning tool, which is designed for use in classrooms and homes by children at risk of developing dyslexia. The tool is based on the client-server …...

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, …...

AbstractThe amount of labeled data to train models for speech tasks is limited for most languages, however, the data scarcity is exacerbated for speech translation which requires labeled data covering …...