Comparison of subjective evaluation and an objective evaluation metric for prosody in text-to-speech synthesis
Daniel Hirst, Albert Rilliard, Véronique Aubergé
Comparing the comprehensibility of different synthetic voices in a dual task experiment
Gerit P. Sonntag, Thomas Portele, Felicitas Haas
Joint evaluation of text-to-speech synthesis in French within the AUPELF ARC-B3 project
Christophe d'Alessandro
Where is the information in speech? (and to what extent can it be modelled in synthesis?)
Nick Campbell
Synthetic speech/sound control language: MSCL
Osamu Mizuno, Shin'ya Nakajima
SABLE: A standard for TTS markup
Richard Sproat, Andrew Hunt, Mari Ostendorf, Paul Taylor, Allan Black, Kevin Lenzo, Mike Edgington
Modeling segmental durations for Japanese text-to-speech synthesis
Jennifer J. Venditti, Jan P. H. van Santen
Contextual Effects on Syllable Duration
Li-Chiung Yang
Modeling phone duration: application to Catalan TTS
Albert Febrer, Jaume Padrell, Antonio Bonafonte
Implications of energy declination for speech synthesis
Jürgen Trouvain, William J. Barry, Claus Nielsen, Ove Andersen
Comparative evaluation of letter-to-sound conversion techniques for English text-to-speech synthesis
Robert I. Damper, Y. Marchand, M. J. Adamson, Kjell Gustafson
Word and syllable models for German text-to-speech synthesis
Bernd Möbius
Improving pronunciation by analogy for text-to-speech applications
Robert I. Damper, Y. Marchand
Multilingual syllabification using weighted finite-state transducers
George Anton Kiraz, Bernd Möbius
Issues in building general letter to sound rules
Alan W Black, Kevin Lenzo, Vincent Pagel
Contextual effects on voicing profiles of German and Mandarin consonants
Chilin Shih, Bernd Möbius
Reiterant speech for the evaluation of natural vs. synthetic prosody
Albert Rilliard, Véronique Aubergé
Designing prosodic databases for automatic modelling in 6 languages
C. Grover, J. Fackrell, H. Vereecken, Jean-Pierre Martens, Bert Van Coile
How a French text-to-speech system can describe loanwords
Frédérique Sannier, Véronique Aubergé, Rabia Belrhali
Efficient adaptation of TTS duration model to new speakers
Chilin Shih, Wentao Gu, Jan P. H. van Santen
Prosody control in fluent Dutch text-to-speech
Arthur Dirksen, Ludmila Menert
Creating an individual speech rhythm: a data driven approach
Oliver Jokisch, Diane Hirschfeld, Matthias Eichner, Rüdiger Hoffmann
Generating pitch accent distributions that show individual and stylistic differences
Janet E. Cahn
Text chunking for prosodic phrasing in French
Philippe Boula de Mareüil, Christophe d'Alessandro
Individuation of postlexical phonology for speech synthesis
Corey Miller
Motivations for the prosodic predictive chain
Eric Keller, Brigitte Zellner
Temporal structures for fast and slow speech rate
Brigitte Zellner
The architecture of the Festival speech synthesis system
Paul Taylor, Alan W. Black, Richard Caley
JUst CONcatenation - A Corpus-based Approach and its Limits
Thomas Portele
Concatenative speech synthesis for European Portuguese
Pedro M. Carvalho, Luís C. Oliveira, Isabel M. Trancoso, M. Céu Viana
Synthesising short vowels from their long counterparts in a concatenative based text-to-speech system
Ove Andersen, N.-J. Dyhr, I. S. Engberg, C. Nielsen
A biphone constrained concatenation method for diphone synthesis
H. Timothy Bunnell, Steven R. Hoskins, Debra M. Yarrington
Foreign Language Speech System
Nick Campbell
Prosody-based unit selection for Japanese speech synthesis
Ken Fujisawa, Nick Campbell
Diphone synthesis using unit selection
Mark Beutnagel, Alistair Conkie, Ann K. Syrdal
Improving speech synthesis of CHATR using a perceptual discontinuity function and constraints of prosodic modification
Wen Ding, Ken Fujisawa, Nick Campbell
Generalization and discrimination in tree-structured unit selection
Michael W. Macon, Andrew E. Cronk, Johan Wouters
Non-uniform unit selection and the similarity metric within BTs Laureate TTS system
Andrew P. Breen, Peter Jackson
Trying to mimic human segmentation of speech using HMM and fuzzy logic post-correction rules
D. Torre Toledano, M. A. Rodríguez Crespo, J. G. Escalada Sardina
Evaluation of speech synthesis systems for Dutch in telecommunication applications
Agaath Sluijter, E. Bosgoed, J. Kerkhoff, E. Meier, Toni Rietveld, A. Sanderman, Marc Swerts, Jacques Terken
PROCSY: A hybrid approach to high-quality formant synthesis using HLSyn
Sebastian Heid, Sarah Hawkins
Personalizing a speech synthesizer by voice adaptation
Alexander Kain, Mike Macon
Which is more important in a concatenative text to speech system - pitch, duration, or spectral discontinuity?
M. Plumpe, S. Meredith
Estimation of articulatory parameter trajectory from speech acoustic dynamics
C. Silva, S. Chennoukh
An Irish speech synthesiser
L. Charonnat, G. Ó-Néill, Guy Mercier
A three-dimensional linear articulatory model based on MRI data
Pierre Badin, Gérard Bailly, M. Raybaudi, C. Segebarth
On subband analysis based on glottal-ARMAX speech model
Keiichi Funaki, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, Koji Tochinai
Concatenative speech synthesis using a harmonic plus noise model
Yannis Stylianou
Removing phase mismatches in concatenative speech synthesis
Yannis Stylianou
Speaker adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis system using MLLR
Masatsune Tamura, Takashi Masuko, Keiichi Tokuda, Takao Kobayashi
Experiments in voice quality modification of natural speech signals: the spectral approach
Christophe dAlessandro, Boris Doval
A wavelet-domain PSOLA approach
Martin Holzapfel, Rüdiger Hoffmann, Harald Höge
Cloning synthetic talking heads
Jialin Zhong, Joseph Olive
Description of the Bell Labs Intonation System
Jan P. H. van Santen, Bernd Möbius, Jennifer J. Venditti, Chilin Shih
A command-response model for F0 contour generation in multilingual speech synthesis
Hiroya Fujisaki, Sumio Ohno, Changfu Wang
Three methods of intonation modeling
Ann K. Syrdal, Gregor Möhler, Kurt Dusterhoff, Alistair Conkie, Alan W. Black
Parametric modeling of intonation using vector quantization
Gregor Möhler, Alistair Conkie
Modeling Japanese boundary pitch movements for speech synthesis
Jennifer J. Venditti, Kazuaki Maeda, Jan P. H. van Santen
Automatic prosody generation using suprasegmental unit selection
F. Malfrère, Thierry Dutoit, Piet Mertens
Report on the Third ESCA TTS Workshop evaluation procedure
Jan P.H. van Santen, Louis C.W. Pols, Masanobu Abe, Dan Kahn, Eric Keller, Julie Vonwiller