In the field of expressive speech synthesis, a lot of work has been conducted on
suprasegmental prosodic features while few has been done on pronunciation variants …

Speech recognizers are typically trained with data from a standard dialect and do not
generalize to non-standard dialects. Mismatch mainly occurs in the acoustic realization of …

Motivated by the quasi-categorical reduced forms of disyllabic words produced in Chinese
conversational speech, a frequency-based selection procedure of typical pronunciation by …

Pronunciation adaptation consists in predicting pronunciation variants of words and
utterances based on their standard pronunciation and a target style. This is a key issue in …

Text-to-speech (TTS) systems are built on speech corpora which are labeled with carefully
checked and segmented phonemes. However, phoneme sequences generated by …

Abstract Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems rely on a grapheme-to-phoneme converter which is
built to produce canonical, or statically stylized, pronunciations. Hence, the TTS quality …

In order to formalize the information used in spectrogram reading, a knowledge-based
system for identifying spoken stop consonants was developed. Speech spectrogram reading …

La parole est un moyen de communication fondamental qui s' inscrit dans une interaction
entre le locuteur et ses auditeurs. En plus du contenu sémantique, le signal de parole nous …

To bring more expressiveness into text-to-speech systems, this paper presents a new
pronunciation variant generation method which works by adapting standard, ie, dictionary …

Cet article présente une nouvelle méthode d'adaptation de la prononciation dont le but est
de reproduire le style spontané. Il s' agit d'une tâche-clé en synthèse de la parole car elle …