expressive prosody for unit selection speech synthesis

... HANOI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY - Thesis for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE Modeling the prosody of Vietnamese language for speech synthesis Speciality: “Information processing and Communication” ... thesis is to model the characteristics of Vietnamese prosody for speech synthesis It focuses on the influences of the macro-prosody on the micro-prosody, in three types of sentence: assertive, interrogative ... the produced speech quality, especially the naturalness of speech prosody Thus, this thesis aims to study the characteristics of Vietnamese prosody for applying to synthesize the speech This work

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 08:58

... HANOI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY - Thesis for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE Modeling the prosody of Vietnamese language for speech synthesis Speciality: “Information processing and Communication” ... thesis is to model the characteristics of Vietnamese prosody for speech synthesis It focuses on the influences of the macro-prosody on the micro-prosody, in three types of sentence: assertive, interrogative ... the produced speech quality, especially the naturalness of speech prosody Thus, this thesis aims to study the characteristics of Vietnamese prosody for applying to synthesize the speech This work

Ngày tải lên: 28/02/2021, 00:01

... thesis is to model the characteristics of Vietnamese prosody for speech synthesis It focuses on the influences of the macro-prosody on the micro-prosody, in three types of sentence: assertive, interrogative ... and prosody emotions Therefore, the "naturalness" of synthesized sentences is much depends on ability of macro-prosody controlling during speech synthesis process 2.2.1 Micro-prosody ... VIETNAMESE LANGUAGE AND PROSODY 3.2 Prosody generaliom 3.2.1 Overview of prosody generat 3.2.2 From lext lo prosody 3.3 Otherzesearches and our proposal 41 Prosody corpus Mạc Đăng

Ngày tải lên: 09/06/2025, 12:31

... 1Thesis for the degree of MASTER OF SCTENCE Modeling the prosody of Vietnamese language for speech Trang 2 Faculty of Information Technology International research center of Multimedia Information, ... LANGUAGE AND PROSODY 3 TTS SYSTEM AND PROSODY GENERATION 3.2 Prosody generaliom 3.2.1 Overview of prosody generat 3.2.2 From lext lo prosody 3.3 Otherzesearches and our proposal 4 PROSODY ... LANGUAGE AND PROSODY 3 TTS SYSTEM AND PROSODY GENERATION 3.2 Prosody generaliom 3.2.1 Overview of prosody generat 3.2.2 From lext lo prosody 3.3 Otherzesearches and our proposal 4 PROSODY

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2025, 08:01

... anddiffusion-based 1.3 Expressive Speech Synthesis 1.3.1 Introduction Expressive speech synthesis (ESS) is the process of creating speech that conveysemotion Expressive speech synthesis has many ... speech synthesis that is suitable for the ified data objectives spec-The thesis is organized as follows: Chapter 1 provides an overview of speech features, speech synthesis, and sive speech synthesis, ... things, such as speech synthesis [12] In the early 2000s, researchers began exploring the use of neural networks forspeech synthesis [13] Neural TTS is a technique for speech synthesis based

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2023, 22:06

... speakers (5M, 5F) Acted Yes - Ryerson Audio-Visual Database of Emotional Speech and Song neutral, angry, - Each emotion (except for neutral) has two levels of intensity: calm, disgust, 7.356 utterances ... in different tones - The vocabulary is limited - The recorded sentences are not sufficient for expressive TTS neutral, angry, - The Surrey Audio-Visual Expressed Emotion Database 4 SAVEE ... disgust, fearful, happy, sad, 4 speakers (all M) 480 utterances Acted Yes - Not suitable for expressive TTS because the number of surprise recorded sentences is limited (12 sentences/speaker

Ngày tải lên: 19/07/2023, 15:59

... unit-selection method 10 1.1.3.2 Statistical parameter speech synthesis 11 1.1.3.3 Speech synthesis using deep neural networks 13 1.1.3.4 Neural speech synthesis 14 1.2 Speech synthesis for ... lowest cost for synthesis Conversely, the clustering approach pre-calculates the cost for each speech unit, grouping similar units into a decision tree This tree allows for rapid speech unit selection ... findings can serve as an impetus to develop speech synthesis for low-resourced languages worldwide and contribute to the basis for speech synthesis development for 53 ethnic minority languages in Viet

Ngày tải lên: 12/12/2023, 14:04

... Trang 4Speech synthesis breaks down into two parts:• The selection and concatenation of appropriate concatenative units given the phoneme string • The synthesis of a speech waveform given the units, ... pauses, and the F0 contour to be used The second — the actual synthesis of speech — takes this information and converts it into a speech waveform Each of these main tasks naturally breaks down into ... of various kinds One commonly performed analysis is grammatical part-of-speech assignment, as information on the part of part-of-speech of words can be useful for accentuation and phrasing, among

Ngày tải lên: 22/01/2014, 12:20

... cre-ate sub-word units for a hybrid system These units are variable-length phoneme sequences, although in principle our work can be use for other unit types Previous methods for creating the ... including units of at most 5 phones to speed sampling with no significant degradation in performance We observed improved performance by dis-allowing whole word units 5.2 Baseline Unit Selection ... model for learning the optimal units for a given task Our model learns a segmentation of a text corpus given some side information: a mapping between the vocabulary and a label set; learned units

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 04:20

... respirator before use to make sure it has a proper seal Trang 18For additional information on PPE Use in Healthcare Settings These websites can provide you with the most up-to-date information on ... procedures, and procedures for recognizing patients with a communicable disease before they expose workers Second are engineering controls like negative pressure rooms for patients with airborne ... first, is the durability and appropriateness of the PPE for the task This will affect, for example, whether a gown or apron is selected for PPE, or, if a gown is selected, whether it needs to

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 13:20

... dis- tinctly closed conformation. Using the structure of the carboxypeptidase DcP, we have produced a model for the closed form of TOP with bound substrate. The model allows for a more careful analysis ... scissile peptide bond. Therefore, Tyr605 is probably also responsible for transition stabilization, suggested previously for the Tyr612 residue [16]. This coordinated effort is similar to that of ... percentage hydrogen bonding for all mutants were calculated based on the last nanosecond of the tra- jectories. All simulations were run for 10 ns, except for G604A which was run for 15 ns. Hydrogen

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20

... Justice Law Enforcement and Corrections Standards and Testing Program National Institute of Justice Guide for the Selection of Chemical and Biological Decontamination Equipment for Emergency ... Enforcement and Corrections Standards and Testing Program is an applied research effort that determines the technological needs of justice system agencies, sets minimum performance standards for specific ... Office for Victims of Crime. U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs National Institute of Justice Guide for the Selection of Chemical and Biological Decontamination Equipment for

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:20

... The Guide for the Selection of Chemical and Biological Decontamination Equipment for Emergency First Responders includes information intended to assist the emergency responder community select ... Enforcement and Corrections Standards and Testing Program is an applied research effort that determines the technological needs of justice system agencies, sets minimum performance standards for ... Office for Victims of Crime U.S Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs National Institute of Justice Guide for the Selection of Chemical and Biological Decontamination Equipment for Emergency

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:20

... for many conventional radio systems, andoptional encryption modules available for some radios to allow for secure communications 2.3.1 Accessories for Portable Radios Additional accessories for ... of the sound information, it must be converted into an electrical form (as is done with a microphone) For several technical reasons, the electrical information is typically transformedinto higher ... the selection factors, it is important to note that although weight wasconsidered an important selection factor for several of the other guides, weight was not included as a selection factor for

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:20

... studies show that the human ear performs spectral analy-sis on the acoustic signal in the form of a filterbank with nonuniform critical bandwidths [1] For wide-band speech with a bandwidth of 8 kHz, ... WPT (OWPT) was proposed for the applications of speech coding, speech enhancement, and speech recognition [9,10] This method uses a tree structure to decompose the input speech signal into the ... the speech signal A clear formant struc-ture for the vowel “a” can be observed fromFigure 2(b), with the first and second formant frequencies around 650 Hz and 1100 Hz, respectively The third formant

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... (or decreased) informa-tion due to interpolainforma-tion, and the assigned weight for each interpolated pixel, is not guaranteed to be the same as that before the warping Therefore, the relationship ... transformation matrix; for most cases, we show that the recognition performance does not deteriorate after warping the test image to the frontal view To summarize, we propose an efficient face synthesis ... basis images and perform recogni-tion The spherical harmonics are a set of functions that form an orthonormal basis for the set of all square-integrable func-tions defined on the unit sphere [4]

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... the current methods are unable to separate unvoiced speech and second, the formant information is not included in the discriminative cues for separation Besides the above techniques, there have ... linearity are used to estimate the individual speech sig-nals via a maximum likelihood optimization While these SCSS techniques perform well when the speech signal is mixed with other sounds, such ... approaches which exploit psychoacoustic clues for sep-aration [5 13] In CASA methods, after an appropriate trans-form (such as the short-time Fourier transtrans-form (STFT) [9] or the gammatone filter

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20

... INTRODUCTION Speech-based command interfaces are becoming more and more common in cars, for example in automatic dialog systems for hands-free phone calls and navigation assis-tance The automatic speech ... automatic speech recognition performance is cru-cial, and can be greatly hampered by interferences such as speech from a codriver Unfortunately, spontaneous multi-party speech contains lots of overlaps ... straightforward forP =1 by representing any angleθ with a pointe jθon the unit circle, as inFigure 3, and observing that | e jθ1 − e jθ2 | =2|sin((θ1 − θ2)/2) | =2d(θ1,θ2).Appendix A.2 proves it for

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 23:20

... have comfortable lives The rich have comfortable Lives 2 We Five near special school for people who can't hear 3 The old soldiers were holding a service for those ... after Louis Braille had developedsystem of writing for the (3) It was one of the first schools in the United States to provide an (4) program for children who were blind or (5) impaired Early ... Trang 1TEST FOR UNIT 4 I Pick out the words that have the italicized letter is not pronounced /n/ or / :/ II Choose the correct words to complete the passage The New York Institution for the Blind

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 08:20

... was transformed by the invention of the Internet d Global communication was transformed invention of Internet ?: 2 What/ use/ fax machine/ for a What are you used fax machine for? b For what ... for Nan technology VI WRITING Choose the correct sentence... Global communication was transformed invention of Internet ?: 2 What/ use/ fax machine/ for a What are you used fax machine for? ... a microwave used for? b. Please tell me how to use a microwave? c. Can you tell me what is used ' for cooking'? d. Could you tell me what a microwave is used for? 7 . A: What

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 08:20