Effectiveness of PLP-based phonetic segmentation for speech synthesis

NJ Shah, BB Vachhani, HB Sailor… - 2014 IEEE international …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, use of Viterbi-based algorithm and spectral transition measure (STM)-based
algorithm for the task of speech data labeling is being attempted. In the STM framework, we …

[PDF][PDF] Overview of NITECH HMM-based text-to-speech system for Blizzard Challenge 2014

K Sawada, S Takaki, K Hashimoto, K Oura… - Blizzard Challenge …, 2014 - festvox.org
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 …

Effectiveness of multiscale fractal dimension-based phonetic segmentation in speech synthesis for low resource language

M Zaki, JN Shah, HA Patil - 2014 International Conference on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Influence of various asymmetrical contextual factors for TTS in a low resource language

NJ Shah, M Zaki, HA Patil - 2014 International Conference on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The generalized statistical framework of Hidden Markov Model (HMM) has been
successfully applied from the field of speech recognition to speech synthesis. In this paper …

Deterministic annealing EM algorithm for developing TTS system in Gujarati

NJ Shah, HA Patil, MC Madhavi… - The 9th International …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The generalized statistical framework of Hidden Markov Model (HMM) has been
successfully applied from the field of speech recognition to speech synthesis. In this work …

Effectiveness of fractal dimension for ASR in low resource language

M Zaki, NJ Shah, HA Patil - The 9th International Symposium …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose to use multiscale fractal dimension (MFD) as components of feature vectors for
automatic speech recognition (ASR) especially in low resource languages. Speech, which is …

[PDF][PDF] Syllables as Linguistic Units?

A Mukerjee, P Jalan - … of the 11th International Conference on …, 2014 - aclanthology.org
While there continues to be a debate in linguistics and speech processing as to the nature of
an atomic unit, in computational approaches the atomic unit is universally taken to be the …