Identifying the vocal cues of likeability, friendliness and skilfulness in synthetic speech
Sai Sirisha Rallabandi, Babak Naderi, Sebastian Möller

Extending Text-to-Speech Synthesis with Articulatory Movement Prediction using Ultrasound Tongue Imaging
Tamás Gábor Csapó

Impact of Segmentation and Annotation in French end-to-end Synthesis
Martin Lenglet, Olivier Perrotin, Gérard Bailly

Pathological voice adaptation with autoencoder-based voice conversion
Marc Illa, Bence Mark Halpern, Rob van Son, Laureano Moro-Velazquez, Odette Scharenborg

Location, Location: Enhancing the Evaluation of Text-to-Speech synthesis using the Rapid Prosody Transcription Paradigm
Elijah Gutierrez, Pilar Oplustil-Gallegos, Catherine Lai

Speech Synthesis from Text and Ultrasound Tongue Image-based Articulatory Input
Tamás Gábor Csapó, László Tóth, Gábor Gosztolya, Alexandra Markó

Combining speakers of multiple languages to improve quality of neural voices
Javier Latorre, Charlotte Bailleul, Tuuli Morrill, Alistair Conkie, Yannis Stylianou

Methods of slowing down speech
Christina Tånnander, Jens Edlund

Personality in the mix - investigating the contribution of fillers and speaking style to the perception of spontaneous speech synthesis
Joakim Gustafson, Jonas Beskow, Eva Szekely

Adaptation of Tacotron2-based Text-To-Speech for Articulatory-to-Acoustic Mapping using Ultrasound Tongue Imaging
Csaba Zainkó, László Tóth, Amin Honarmandi Shandiz, Gábor Gosztolya, Alexandra Markó, Géza Németh, Tamás Gábor Csapó

Improving Emotional TTS with an Emotion Intensity Input from Unsupervised Extraction
Bastian Schnell, Philip N. Garner

Acquiring conversational speaking style from multi-speaker spontaneous dialog corpus for prosody-controllable sequence-to-sequence speech synthesis
Slava Shechtman, Avrech Ben-David

EmoCat: Language-agnostic Emotional Voice Conversion
Bastian Schnell, Goeric Huybrechts, Bartek Perz, Thomas Drugman, Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba

Enhancing audio quality for expressive Neural Text-to-Speech
Abdelhamid Ezzerg, Adam Gabrys, Bartosz Putrycz, Daniel Korzekwa, Daniel Saez-Trigueros, David McHardy, Kamil Pokora, Jakub Lachowicz, Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Viacheslav Klimkov

Are we truly modeling expressiveness? A study on expressive TTS in Brazilian Portuguese for real-life application styles
Lucas H. Ueda, Paula D. P. Costa, Flavio O. Simoes, Mário U. Neto

Vocal tract area function extraction using ultrasound for articulatory speech synthesis
Debasish Ray Mohapatra, Pramit Saha, Yadong Liu, Bryan Gick, Sidney Fels

Non-Autoregressive TTS with Explicit Duration Modelling for Low-Resource Highly Expressive Speech
Raahil Shah, Kamil Pokora, Abdelhamid Ezzerg, Viacheslav Klimkov, Goeric Huybrechts, Bartosz Putrycz, Daniel Korzekwa, Thomas Merritt

Intelligibility and naturalness of articulatory synthesis with VocalTractLab compared to established speech synthesis technologies
Paul Konstantin Krug, Simon Stone, Peter Birkholz

Perception of smiling voice in spontaneous speech synthesis
Ambika Kirkland, Marcin Włodarczak, Joakim Gustafson, Eva Szekely

Voicy: Zero-Shot Non-Parallel Voice Conversion in Noisy Reverberant Environments
Alejandro Mottini, Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Sri Vishnu Kumar Karlapati, Thomas Drugman

Rapping-Singing Voice Synthesis based on Phoneme-level Prosody Control
Konstantinos Markopoulos, Nikolaos Ellinas, Alexandra Vioni, Myrsini Christidou, Panos Kakoulidis, Georgios Vamvoukakis, June Sig Sung, Hyoungmin Park, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Aimilios Chalamandaris, Georgia Maniati

Exploring Disentanglement with Multilingual and Monolingual VQ-VAE
Jennifer Williams, Jason Fong, Erica Cooper, Junichi Yamagishi

Text-to-Speech Synthesis Techniques for MIDI-to-Audio Synthesis
Erica Cooper, Xin Wang, Junichi Yamagishi

Preliminary study on using vector quantization latent spaces for TTS/VC systems with consistent performance
Hieu-Thi Luong, Junichi Yamagishi

Low-latency real-time non-parallel voice conversion based on cyclic variational autoencoder and multiband WaveRNN with data-driven linear prediction
Patrick Lumban Tobing, Tomoki Toda

Factors Affecting the Evaluation of Synthetic Speech in Context
Johannah O'Mahony, Pilar Oplustil-Gallegos, Catherine Lai, Simon King

Non-native English lexicon creation for bilingual speech synthesis
Arun Baby, Pranav Jawale, Saranya Vinnaitherthan, Sumukh Badam, Nagaraj Adiga, Sharath Adavane

Cross-lingual Transfer of Phonological Features for Low-resource Speech Synthesis
Dan Wells, Korin Richmond

Mind your p’s and k’s -- Comparing obstruents across TTS voices of the Blizzard Challenge 2013
Ayushi Pandey, Sébastien Le Maguer, Julie Berndsen, Naomi Harte

Improving Polyglot Speech Synthesis through Multi-task and Adversarial Learning
Jason Fong, Jilong Wu, Prabhav Agrawal, Andrew Gibiansky, Thilo Koehler, Qing He

Multi-Scale Spectrogram Modelling for Neural Text-to-Speech
Ammar Abbas, Bajibabu Bollepalli, Alexis Moinet, Arnaud Joly, Penny Karanasou, Peter Makarov, Simon Slangens, Sri Karlapati, Thomas Drugman

How do Voices from Past Speech Synthesis Challenges Compare Today?
Erica Cooper, Junichi Yamagishi

Accent Modeling of Low-Resourced Dialect in Pitch Accent Language Using Variational Autoencoder
Kazuya Yufune, Tomoki Koriyama, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Hiroshi Saruwatari

Liaison and Pronunciation Learning in End-to-End Text-to-Speech in French
Jason Taylor, Sébastien Le Maguer, Korin Richmond

FeatherTTS: Robust and Efficient attention based Neural TTS
Qiao Tian, Chao Liu, Zewang Zhang, Heng Lu, Linghui Chen, Bin Wei, Pujiang He, Shan Liu

Comparing acoustic and textual representations of previous linguistic context for improving Text-to-Speech
Pilar Oplustil-Gallegos, Johannah O'Mahony, Simon King

Audiobook Speech Synthesis Conditioned by Cross-Sentence Context-Aware Word Embeddings
Wataru Nakata, Tomoki Koriyama, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Naoko Tanji, Yusuke Ijima, Ryo Masumura, Hiroshi Saruwatari

Lipsyncing efforts for transcreating lecture videos in Indian languages
Mano Ranjith Kumar M, Jom Kuriakose, Karthik Pandia D S, Hema A Murthy

Homograph disambiguation with contextual word embeddings for TTS systems
Marco Nicolis, Viacheslav Klimkov

Analysing Temporal Sensitivity of VQ-VAE Sub-Phone Codebooks
Jason Fong, Jennifer Williams, Simon King