In this paper, we propose a multi-stage children story speech synthesis system for Hindi
language. The proposed system performs the following tasks:(i) classification of stories into …

This paper describes a hidden Markov model based text-tospeech (TTS) system developed
at the Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITECH) for Blizzard Challenge 2014. The tasks of …

This paper describes the implementation of the IRISA unit selection-based TTS system for
our participation to the Blizzard Challenge 2017. We describe the process followed to build …

Phonetic segmentation plays a key role in developing various speech applications. In this
work, we propose to use various features for automatic phonetic segmentation task for …

A text-to-speech synthesis system is expected to convert any given text to highly intelligible
and natural speech that sounds as human-like as possible. It finds its place in a variety of …

Text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis systems are being advanced to achieve naturalness and
intelligibility in synthetic speech. Unit selection-based synthesis (USS) and Hidden Markov …

Advancements in speech synthesis technology have mandated the need for reliable
methods for its evaluation. Present day evaluation, dominated by subjective listening tests …

The development of Text to Speech synthesis systems as part of the Human Language
Technology is a dominating research field in the present age. Languages are the backbone …

This research work has attempted to study the speech prosody for designing a speech
synthesizer. Speech prosody carries all relevant information about the utterances. Here, it …

We address the problem of TTS speech quality evaluation and propose a double-ended
objective measure in the form of average spectral distortion between time-aligned reference …