Unit Selection
New Slovak Unit-Selection Speech Synthesis in ARTIC TTS System
... We used the same phonetic inventory as described in [3] and shown in Table I. To create an acoustic unit inven- tory (AUI) for a unit-selection system, a new large speech corpus of a Slovak voice was ...
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Developing a unit selection voice given audio without corresponding text
... frame-sized units [33, 34], HMM-state sized [35, 36], half-phones [1], and diphones [37] to syllables [38] and to much larger and non-uniform units [39] have been investigated in the literature. We used a quinphone as a ...
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Creation and analysis of a Polish speech database for use in unit selection synthesis
... Unit selection systems are highly sensitive to the accuracy of phonetic ...incorrect unit be chosen and as a result a wrong target word may be produced but also a particu- lar word be said with an ...
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Implementation of simulated annealing in unit selection for Malay text-to-speech system
... 1999). Unit selection synthesizers in the current state produce highly intelligible, near natural synthetic speech (Tsiakoulis et ...speech unit from a very large speech corpus containing enough ...
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Statistical Modeling for Unit Selection in Speech Synthesis
... traditional unit selection system and concentrate on the problem of estimating the concatenation ...the unit selection system presented in the previous section to generate a large corpus of ...
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Acoustic-visual synthesis technique using bimodal unit-selection
... The selection of these segments was based on a combined concatena- tion cost using a weighted sum of costs of audio and visual ...tic unit-selection technique extended to the audiovisual ...
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An Efficient Unit-selection Method for Concatenative Text-to-speech Synthesis Systems
... the unit-selection ...speech unit-selection procedure with minimum effects on the speech ...speech unit selection methods, are planned in ...
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Text Normalization and Unit Selection for a Memory Based Non Uniform Unit Selection TTS in Malayalam
... The unit selection algorithm maintains a top- down approach within the memory ...optimal unit will be selected while moving through the hi- ...longest unit if present in ...
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A unit selection text-to-speech-and-singing synthesis framework from neutral speech: proof of concept
... In this sense, it is worth mentioning that early works on speech synthesis already enabled the generation of both speech and singing (e.g. see [8]), as they stood on a source- filter model inspired by the classical ...
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Hybrid statistical/unit-selection Turkish speech synthesis using suffix units
... The proposed system exploits the morphologically rich structure of the Turkish words to keep the unit selection database small. In Turkish, many different words can be generated from the same root word by ...
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On Proper Unit Selection in Active Learning: Co Selection Effects for Named Entity Recognition
... The success of AL is usually measured as reduc- tion of annotation effort according to some cost mea- sure. Traditionally, the most common cost measure considers a unit cost per annotated token, which fa- vors AL ...
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Text to Speech Conversion for Vocally Disable
... In speech synthesis, speech is recorded at sampling rate of 16kHz. Then these recorded speeches are segmented phonetically in discrete time domain. So the segmented units are stored according to their sample values. ...
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Text To Speech Conversion Using Different Speech Synthesis
... Abstract: Text to speech (TTS) synthesis is the automatic conversion of text into speech. Generally, TTS system consists of two phases. The first is text analysis, where the input text is transcribed into a phonetic or ...
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Optimization of an Image-Based Talking Head System
... the unit selection. Depending on the phoneme information, the unit selection selects mouth images from the database and assembles them in an optimal way to produce the desired ...The ...
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Towards Linguistic Naturalness of Synthetic Speech
... Abstract—This paper presents another step towards linguistic naturalness of synthetic Czech. The main goal of this study is to avoid unintended occurrences of parasitic speech sounds (namely preglottalization) in ...
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The ADAPT entry to the Blizzard Challenge 2016
... the unit-selection ap- ...as unit-selection, but it provides a higher degree of para- metric flexibility to produce different voice types such as voices with ...whereas ...
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On the Importance of Audiovisual Coherence for the Perceived Quality of Synthesized Visual Speech
... multimodal unit selection strategy requires the selected segments to be phonemically identical with the ...other unit selection databases (often more than 2 hours of speech), the amount of ...
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Lean Facilitator Selection with VIKOR and SAW under Fuzzy Environment for Implementing the Spring Manufacturing unit
... environment selection of the best lean facilitator, choice of the simplest lean assistant could be a complicated and is a complex multi criteria problem and this draw back associate degreed a key success for an ...
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The Malaysian Employees Provident Fund’s Members’ Investment Scheme: Survey of Fund Selection, Performance and Perceptions.
... managed unit trusts were similar to their local ...the Unit Trust Industry in Malaysia over a period of 10 years, 1984 – ...general, unit trust funds could not outperform the market even though some ...
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Selection Of Design Criteria For The Coagulation, Flocculation And Sedimentation Unit In The Klapanunggal Drinking Water Treatment Plant
... Klapanunggal plant. Coagulation is a charge destabilization process in suspended particles and colloids, particles cannot settle on their own, the deposition of these flocks formed by the addition of coagulants as ...
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