Prosodic phrasing is an important factor that affects naturalness and intelligibility in text-to-
speech synthesis. Studies show that deep learning techniques improve prosodic phrasing …

Tacotron-based end-to-end speech synthesis has shown remarkable voice quality.
However, the rendering of prosody in the synthesized speech remains to be improved …

The detection of perceived prominence in speech has attracted approaches ranging from
the design of knowledge-based linguistic and acoustic features to the automatic feature …

Prosodic boundary plays an important role in text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) in terms of
naturalness and readability. However, the acquisition of prosodic boundary labels relies on …

In expressive and controllable Text-to-Speech (TTS), explicit prosodic features significantly
improve the naturalness and controllability of synthesised speech. However, manual …

In this paper, we explore prosody transfer for audiobook generation under rather realistic
condition where training DB is plain audio mostly from multiple ordinary people and …

While producing accurate prosody can significantly improve the naturalness and
comprehensibility of synthesized speech, many Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems still do not …

In expressive and controllable Text-to-Speech (TTS), explicit prosodic features significantly
improve the naturalness and controllability of synthesised speech. However, manual …

Speech processing technology has great potential in the medical field to provide beneficial
solutions for both patients and doctors. Speech interfaces, represented by speech synthesis …

This study aims to quantify the effect of several information sources: acoustic, higher-level
linguistic, and knowledge of the prosodic system of the language, on the perception of …