The social signal (SS) of hesitation is commonly manifested through a multiplicity of
nonverbal behavioural cues when a user is faced with a variety of decision choices. The aim …

Speech synthesis research has recently focused on developing polyglot speech
synthesizers for handling mixed-language sentences. Polyglot speech synthesis systems …

The term polyglot speech synthesis refers to the process of producing speech in multiple
languages and single speaker's voice from a single text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) system …

Bilingual polyglot speech synthesis refers to the process of synthesizing two languages with
same voice, using a single speech synthesizer. In India, people often mix Hindi with their …

Nowadays Human Computer Interaction (HCI) can also be achieved with voice user
interfaces (VUIs). To enable devices to communicate with humans by speech in the user's …

We compare the performance of two approaches when using cross-lingual data from
different speakers to build bilingual speech synthesis systems capable of producing speech …

The EMPIRE workshop attempts to provide some answers to the growing interest of the user
modeling research community on the role of human factors, especially personality and …

In this paper, we present the experimental design for the evaluation of the impact of social
signal application on a user's decision making in the area of telecommunications. The aim of …