embedded unit selection text to speech synthesis for mobile devices

... 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 further ... Durations • Intonation 46.3 Speech Synthesis 46.4 The Future of T TS References 46.1 Introduction Text- to- speech synthesis has had a long history, one that can be traced back at least to Dudley’s “Voder”, ... phoneme string. • The synthesis of a speech waveform given the units, plus a model of the glottal source. 46.2 Text Analysis and Linguistic Analysis 46.2.1 Text Preprocessing The input to TTS systems is text...

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... nữa.thể chia nhỏ ra được nữa. Âiế óíh à đ bởiÂiế óíh à đ bởi  Âm tiết có tính to n vẹn được tạo ra bởi Âm tiết có tính to n vẹn được tạo ra bởi một đợt căng của bộ máy phát âmmột đợt căng của bộ...

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... four 19941994 nineteen ninety fournineteen ninety four Thuậttoánmở rộng các từ viếttắtThuậttoánmở rộng các từ viếttắtThuật to n mở rộng các từ viết tắtThuật to n mở rộng các từ viết tắt  Bước 1: Nếu từ ... tắt bởi ký tự đại diện  Pronounced as a wordPronounced as a word NATONATO NN thth AAtl titl ti TT tt OO itiiti–– NATO: NATO: NNorth orth AAtlantic tlantic TTreaty reaty OOrganizationrganization ––scuba: ... fiftyseven hours fifty five minutes and fortyfive minutes and forty six six secondsseconds –– Money and currencyMoney and currency $40$40 forty dollarsforty dollars 300 300 €€ three hundred eurosthree...

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... (MT) unit. The MT unit works in two modes: Classifier based MT and a fully Stochastic MT. Depending on the dia- logue manager mode, translations can be sent to the unit selection based Text- To- Speech ... describe a two-way speech -to- speech English-Farsi translation system prototype developed for use in doctor- patient interactions. The overarching philosophy of the developers has been to create a system ... "suggestions" (for next questions for the doctor to ask) based on query sets which are topically related to the query the system believes it recognized the doctor to have spoken. Overall, the system...

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... tones. Tone 1 Tone 2 Tone 3 Tone 4 Tone 5 Tone 6 ngang huyền ‘\’ ngã ‘~’ hỏi ‘?’ sắc ‘/’ nặng ‘.’ Figure 2-1: Example of the contours of six tones, as described in [21]. • Tone ... Speech is the primary means of communication between people. Speech synthesis, automatic generation of speech waveforms, has been under development for several decades. Recent progress in speech ... been applied in speech synthesis. 1.2.1. Intonation models 1.2.1.1 Intonation model classification The primary goal of intonation research is to model natural f0 contours of speech, preferably...

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... 567–575, Athens, Greece, 30 March – 3 April 2009. c 2009 Association for Computational Linguistics Text- to -text Semantic Similarity for Automatic Short Answer Grading Michael Mohler and Rada Mihalcea Department ... examine the usefulness of various text- to -text semantic similarity measures for automati- cally grading short student answers. Specifically, in this paper we seek answers to the following questions. ... feedback in information retrieval. Prentice Hall, Ing. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. G. Salton, A. Wong, and C.S. Yang. 1997. A vec- tor space model for automatic indexing. In Read- ings in Information...

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... structural information constructed by the underlying NLG component to improve the quality of synthe- sized speech. Together, they have the potential of generating better speech than Text- to- Speech ... paper, we report on an effort to pro- vide a general-purpose spoken language gener- ation tool for Concept -to- Speech (CTS) appli- cations by extending a widely used text gener- ation package, ... description 4.1 Tools and Data In order to model intonational features au- tomatically, features from FUF/SURGE and a speech corpus are provided as input to a machine learning tool called RIPPER...

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... Stylized Intonation Con- tours for German, in Proc. of Eurospeech 97, Rhodes, Greece, 1:307-10, 1997. Prevost S., Steedman M.: Specifying Intonation from Context for Speech Synthesis, Speech ... unambiguously triggers the selection of tones. In the field of text- to- speech synthesis, at last, intonation most often is handled by using algo- rithms and heuristics that intermingle informa- tion on ... Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, pp.1024-1030, 1991. 1045 From Information Structure to Intonation: A Phonological Interface for Concept -to- Speech Hannes Pirker, Georg Niklfeld, Johannes Matiasek and...

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... image from natural language texts. In Proc. of COLING-9P, pages 1279-1283, Nantes. 301 From route descriptions to sketches: a model for a text- to- image translator Lidia Fraczak LIMSI-CNRS, ... automatic trans- lation of route descriptions into graphic sketches. We discuss some general prob- lems implied by such inter-mode transcrip- tion. We propose a model for an automatic text- to- image ... be able to pass from one to the other. Given the differences in capacities of these two means of expression, one may expect some problems in trying to encode into a picture the information...

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... the wordform, OldEnd is the string that has to be removed from the end of the wordform, and NewEnd is the string that has to be concatenated to the beginning of the word- form in order to produce ... (which has a short and a long form for sin- gular masculine), and lacks verb infinitive forms. It further uses special evidential verb forms to ex- press unwitnessed, retold, and doubtful activities. Bulgarian ... train- ing dataset for each class of tags that can be as- signed to some word type, according to the lexi- con. For example, the most frequent tag for is Ncfsi, and the most frequent tag for the tag-class...

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... actual synthesis of speech and hence describes only what would generate the input to our component. 3 Incremental Speech Synthesis 3.1 Background on Speech Synthesis Text- to- speech (TTS) synthesis ... Text- to- Speech Synthesis. Cambridge Univ Press, Cambridge, UK. Tomoki Toda and Keiichi Tokuda. 2007. A Speech Pa- rameter Generation Algorithm Considering Global Vari- ance for HMM-based Speech Synthesis. ... Introduction Current state of the art in speech synthesis for spoken dialogue systems (SDSs) is for the synthesis com- ponent to expect full utterances (in textual form) as input and to deliver an audio stream...

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