'Unit selection' presentation slideshows

Text to Speech Systems (TTS) EE 516 Spring 2009

Text to Speech Systems (TTS) EE 516 Spring 2009. Alex Acero. Acknowledgments. Thanks to Dan Jurafsky for a lot of slides Also thanks to Alan Black, Jennifer Venditti, Richard Sproat. Outline. History of TTS Architecture Text Processing Letter-to-Sound Rules Prosody Waveform Generation

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Text to Speech Systems (TTS) EE 516 Spring 2009

Text to Speech Systems (TTS) EE 516 Spring 2009. Alex Acero. Acknowledgments. Thanks to Dan Jurafsky for a lot of slides Also thanks to Alan Black, Jennifer Venditti, Richard Sproat. Outline. History of TTS Architecture Text Processing Letter-to-Sound Rules Prosody Waveform Generation

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Back-End Synthesis

Back-End Synthesis. Julia Hirschberg CS 4706 (*Thanks to Dan and Jim). Architectures of Modern Synthesis. Articulatory Synthesis: Model movements of articulators and acoustics of vocal tract Formant Synthesis: Start with acoustics, create rules/filters to create each formant

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December 19, 2005

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Emotional Speech

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The Creation of Emotional Effects for An Arabic Speech Synthesis System

The Creation of Emotional Effects for An Arabic Speech Synthesis System. Prepared by: Waleed Mohamed Azmy Under Supervision: Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Ismail Shoman Dr. Sherif Mahdy Abdou. Agenda. Motivations & Applications Emotional Synthesis Approaches

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Database Driven Speech Synthesis Systems

Database Driven Speech Synthesis Systems. Thomas Wiener twiener@sbox.tugraz.at. Overview. Introduction Database building Units Concatenation Synthesis Unit Selection Examples Summary. 1 Introduction 1/3. Important criterion for speech synthesis systems: ? Naturalness

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Introduction to the Course and to Speech Synthesis

Introduction to the Course and to Speech Synthesis. Julia Hirschberg. Applications for Speech Technologies. Speech synthesis (TTS): AT&T , IBM ( Jeopardy 2/14-16), SitePal Speech recognition (ASR): Nuance Speech to Speech Translation Speech Search: Google Voice Search

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Speech Synthesis in the SPACE Reading Tutor Closing Symposium of the SPACE Project 06 FEB 2009

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Speech and Language Processing

Speech and Language Processing. Chapter 8 of SLP Speech Synthesis / Waveform synthesis. Waveform Synthesis. Given: String of phones Prosody Desired F0 for entire utterance Duration for each phone Stress value for each phone, possibly accent value Generate: Waveforms.

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Automatic Pruning of Unit Selection Speech Databases for Synthesis without loss of Naturalness

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E XPERIMENTS WITH U NIT S ELECTION S PEECH D ATABASES FOR I NDIAN L ANGUAGES

E XPERIMENTS WITH U NIT S ELECTION S PEECH D ATABASES FOR I NDIAN L ANGUAGES. S P Kishore* + , Alan W Black # , Rohit Kumar*, Rajeev Sangal* * Language Technologies Research Center International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

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Speech Synthesis: Then and Now

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Vocalizer Technical Architecture

Vocalizer Technical Architecture. Aug, 2013. Outline. Background Embedded and Network solutions Front-end and Back-end Architecture Languages and Voices Portfolio Tools & Services Strategic directions. Vocalizer = Voice Output Solutions. Recorded prompts with dynamic slots Street names

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Joint Prosody Prediction and Unit Selection for Concatenative Speech Synthesis

Joint Prosody Prediction and Unit Selection for Concatenative Speech Synthesis. Ivan Bulyko and Mari Ostendorf Electrical Engineering Department University of Washington, Seattle. Limited Domain Synthesis. Standard Approach. Our Approach. Concept. Canonical Pronunciation.

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