articulatory speech synthesis
Robust Articulatory Speech Synthesis using Deep Neural Networks for BCI Applications
... use speech BCI directly controlling a speech ...intelligible speech, ii) run in real time, iii) depend on as few parameters as possible, and iv) be robust to error fluctuations on the control ...an ...
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Articulatory Speech Synthesis from Static Context-Aware Articulatory Targets
... Keywords: articulatory synthesis · coarticulation · articulatory ges- tures 1 Introduction Articulatory speech synthesis is a method of synthesizing speech by managing the ...
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Can static vocal tract positions represent articulatory targets in continuous speech? Matching static MRI captures against real-time MRI for the French language
... guides speech phenomena: tar- ...in articulatory speech synthesis [6, 18, 19], which in turn will be capable of serving as further evidence for the un- derpinnings of speech production ...
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Probabilistic Speaker Pronunciation Adaptation for Spontaneous Speech Synthesis Using Linguistic Features
... synthetic speech, especially when considering a spontaneous ...English speech corpus show that adapted pronunciations significantly better reflect spontaneous speech than standard ones, and that even ...
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Introducing Prosodic Speaker Identity for a Better Expressive Speech Synthesis Control
... Parametric Speech Synthesis (SPSS) as, by definition, the model should produce a speech signal corre- sponding to one consistent ...expressive speech synthesis systems can benefit from ...
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SynPaFlex-Corpus: An Expressive French Audiobooks Corpus Dedicated to Expressive Speech Synthesis
... the speech the speech Table 5: Examples of perceived impacts of emotion on the speech the way the emotion is rendered through the speech (discreetly, prudently / obtrusively, ostentatiously) ...
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Copy synthesis of running speech based on vocal tract imaging and audio recording
... running speech from information ob- tained from simultaneous vocat tract imaging and audio ...during speech production given the actual articulatory gestures of the speaker, so that the simulated ...
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Setup for Acoustic-Visual Speech Synthesis by Concatenating Bimodal Units
... the speech signal and a 3D animation of the speaker’s ...acoustic-only synthesis, which are augmented with a visual join ...synthesized speech signal and the face animation are of good ...
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Articulatory model of the epiglottis
... Laufer, A. and I. D. Condax (1981). “The function of the epiglottis in speech”. In: Language ad Speech 21.1, pp. 39–62. Maeda, S. (1979). “Un modèle articulatoire de la langue avec des com- posantes ...
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Corpus-based unit selection for natural-sounding speech synthesis
... phones (with transition phones) to waveform segments. The actual composition be- tween ((W ◦(L◦P ))◦T ) and S takes place during a Viterbi search to be described later. Properties of S which expedite this search include ...
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Can we Generate Emotional Pronunciations for Expressive Speech Synthesis?
... 2.3 Studies on pronunciation variants modelling A possible way to introduce pronunciation variants into TTS is to manually add alternative pronunciations directly into the dictionary [26]. Rule-based pronunciation ...
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Automatic generation of fundamental frequency for text-to-speech synthesis
... Various other techniques have also been used to model fundamental frequency (Fo). Hidden Markov Models have been used to generate Fo contours for isolated words [29]. R[r] ...
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Capturing data and realistic 3D models for cued speech analysis and audiovisual synthesis
... text-to-speech synthesis system by concatenation that addresses French Manual Cued Speech ...outputted synthesis parameters to drive the more realistic 3D models instead of the low-density ...
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Cooperation between global and local methods for automatic segmentation of speech synthesis corpora
... 2, avenue Pierre Marzin, 22307 Lannion Cedex, France olivier.rosec@francetelecom.com Abstract This paper introduces a new approach for the automatic segmen- tation of corpora dedicated to speech synthesis. ...
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Alternative speech communication based on cued speech
... Cued Speech for French was presented in order to investigate an alternative speech communication method for individuals with speech- or hearing ...Cued Speech for French using visual ...
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Amharic Speech Recognition for Speech Translation
... state-of-the-art speech translation can be seen as a cascade of Automatic Speech Recognition, Statistical Machine Translation and Text-To-Speech ...Amharic speech recognition for ...
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Toward a multi-speaker visual articulatory feedback system
... and articulatory recognition rates of the inversed ...and articulatory levels, which may be ascribed to the sex difference, and the difference in size and content of the corpus – allowing only 192 ...
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From speech privacy to speech security
... INTRODUCTION Speech privacy refers to conditions where our ability to understand some speech sounds is ...reduced. Speech privacy may be desired because we want a conversation to remain confidential ...
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Phoneme resistance during speech-in-speech comprehension
... for speech signals, (iv) intensity calibration in dB-A and normalization of each source at 80 dB-A and (v) final mixing of individual sources into cocktail party sound ...generated speech babble stimuli ...
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Study of unit selection text-to-speech synthesis algorithms
... IX. UNITÉS SANDWICH POUR LE COÛT DE CONCATÉNATION 3 and adding features. This thesis is articulated around tree main parts. In the first part, we describe the state of the art in speech synthesis. We start ...
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