SLP-P13: Speech Synthesis III |
| Session Type: Poster |
| Time: Thursday, May 18, 10:00 - 12:00 |
| Location: Poster Area 7 |
| Chair: Hisashi Kawai, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute |
| SLP-P13.1: SCALABLE IMPLEMENTATION OF UNIT SELECTION BASED TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM FOR EMBEDDED SOLUTIONS |
| Nobuo Nukaga, Ryota Kamoshida, Kenji Nagamatsu, Yoshinori Kitahara, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan |
| SLP-P13.2: SUB-PHONETIC MODELING FOR CAPTURING PRONUNCIATION VARIATIONS FOR CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS |
| Kishore Prahallad, Alan W. Black, Ravishankhar Mosur, Carnegie Mellon University, United States |
| SLP-P13.3: PRONUNCIATION VARIANT SELECTION FOR SPONTANEOUS SPEECH SYNTHESIS - LISTENING EFFORT AS A QUALITY PARAMETER |
| Steffen Werner, Matthias Wolff, Rüdiger Hoffmann, Dresden University of Technology, Germany |
| SLP-P13.4: PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION ANALYSIS AND QUALITY ESTIMATION OF PROSODY-MODIFIED SPEECH FOR TD-PSOLA |
| Shi-Han Chen, Shun-Ju Chen, Chih-Chung Kuo, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan |
| SLP-P13.5: EFFICIENT INTERACTIVE WEIGHT TUNING FOR TTS SYNTHESIS: REDUCING USER FATIGUE BY IMPROVING USER CONSISTENCY |
| Francesc Alías, Enginyeria i Arquitectura La Salle. Ramon Llull University., Spain; Xavier Llorà, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States; Lluís Formiga, Enginyeria i Arquitectura La Salle. Ramon Llull University., Spain; Kumara Sastry, David E. Goldberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States |
| SLP-P13.6: IMPROVING LPC SPECTRAL ENVELOPE EXTRACTION OF VOICED SPEECH BY TRUE-ENVELOPE ESTIMATION |
| Fernando Villavicencio Marquez, Axel Röbel, Xavier Rodet, IRCAM, France |
| SLP-P13.7: CONSTRUCTION AND CONTROL OF A THREE-DIMENSIONAL VOCAL TRACT MODEL |
| Peter Birkholz, Dietmar Jackel, University of Rostock, Germany; Bernd J. Kroeger, University Hospital Aachen, Germany |
| SLP-P13.8: HIGH QUALITY SINUSOIDAL MODELING OF WIDEBAND SPEECH FOR THE PURPOSES OF SPEECH SYNTHESIS AND MODIFICATION |
| Dan Chazan, Ron Hoory, Ariel Sagi, Slava Shechtman, Alex Sorin, IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa, Israel, Israel; Zhi Wei Shuang, IBM China Research Lab, Israel; Raimo Bakis, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, United States |
| SLP-P13.9: CONSTRUCTING A PHONETIC-RICH SPEECH CORPUS WHILE CONTROLLING TIME-DEPENDENT VOICE QUALITY VARIABILITY FOR ENGLISH SPEECH SYNTHESIS |
| Jinfu Ni, Toshio Hirai, ATR Spoken Language Communication Research Laboratories, Japan; Hisashi Kawai, KDDI R&D Laboratories, Japan |
| SLP-P13.10: VISUAL EVALUATION OF VOICE TRANSFORMATION BASED ON KNOWLEDGE OF SPEAKER |
| Arthur Toth, Alan W. Black, Carnegie Mellon University, United States |
| SLP-P13.11: DATABASE PRUNING FOR UNSUPERVISED BUILDING OF TEXT-TO-SPEECH VOICES |
| Jordi Adell, Pablo Daniel Agüero, Antonio Bonafonte, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain |