We present the implementation and evaluation of an open-domain unit selection speech
synthesis engine designed to be flexible enough to encourage further unit selection …

This paper presents the design and development of unrestricted text to speech synthesis
(TTS) system in Bengali language. Unrestricted TTS system is capable to synthesize good …

Latent semantic mapping (LSM) is a generalization of latent semantic analysis (LSA), a
paradigm originally developed to capture hidden word patterns in a text document corpus. In …

The quality of current commercial speech synthesis systems is now so high that system
improvements are being made at subtle sub-and supra-segmental levels. Human perceptual …

This thesis aimed at conducting research on the synthesis and expressive transformations of
the singing voice, towards the development of a high-quality synthesizer that can generate a …

In this chapter, we present the main trends in corpus-based speech synthesis, assuming a
stream of phonemes and prosodic target as input. From the early diphone-based speech …

Автоматический синтез речи-это технология, позволяющая преобразовать входную
текстовую информацию в звучащую речь. При этом одним из важнейших аспектов …

This paper proposes a method for tuning the weights of unit selection cost functions in
syllable based text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system. In this work, unit selection cost …

Рассматриваются способы применения в системе электронного обучения
иностранным языкам технологий автоматического распознавания и синтеза речи для …

Corpus based speech synthesis can produce high quality synthetic speech due to it high
sensitivity to unit context. Large speech database is embedded in synthesis system and …