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... 1999b. Rapid unit selection from a large speech corpus for concatenative speech synthesis. In Proceedings of Eurospeech, volume 2, pages 607–610. Ivan Bulyko and Mari Ostendorf. 2001. Unit selec- tion ... 987–990. Alistair Conkie, Mark Beutnagel, Ann Syrdal, and Philip Brown. 2000. Preselection of candidate units in a unit selection- based text-to -speech syn- thesis system. In Proceedings of ICSLP, vol- ume 3, ... model- ing framework for unit selection inspired by auto- matic speech recognition. Given appropriate data, techniques based on that framework can result in a more accurate unit selection, thereby...

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... LLC Speech 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, ... Preprocessing • Accentuation • WordPronunciation • In- tonational Phrasing • Segmental 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 ... M.,Morphologyandrhyming: Twopowerfulalternatives to letter-to-sound rules for speech synthesis, in Proceedings of the ESCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, Bailly, G. and Benoit, C., Eds., 83–86, 1990. [10] Golding,...

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... "naturalness" of synthesized speech is depends on ability of macro-prosody controlling during speech synthesis process. Objectives and Tasks This thesis is part of MICA speech synthesis research and ... 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 ... 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...

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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. ... are fed to a vocoder which gen- erates the speech audio signal. Unit- selection, in contrast, searches for the best sequence of (variably sized) units of speech in a large, annotated corpus of recordings,...

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... Mandarin speech synthesis , Proc. ICSLP Chou, F.C, Tseng, C.Y, Chen, K.J., Lee, L.S, 1997. “A Chinese text-to -speech system based on part-of -speech analysis, prosodic modeling and non-uniform units”, ... Spanish text-to -speech , Speech Communication, 18:281-290 Hu, Y., Liu, Q.F., Wang, R.H., 2000, “Prosody generation in Chinese synthesis using the template of quantified prosodic unit and base ... English speech synthesis from high level linguistic input”, Proc. ICSLIP Chen, S.H., Hwang, S.H., Wang, Y.R., 1998. “An RNN-based prosodic information synthesizer for Mandarin text-to -speech ,...

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... 5tress Assignment for Speech Synthesis Kenneth Church Bell Laboratories 600 Mountain Ave. Murray Hill, N.J. research !alice !kwc kwc@mit-mc.arpa 1. Background A speech synthesizer is ... that pushing the theoretical linguistic understanding with a demanding application such as speech synthesis will uncover some new insights. 3. Types of Morphological Combination It has long ... English, Harper and Row, 1968. Church, K., Stress Assignment in Letter to Sound Rules for Speech Synthesis, in Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 1985. Church,...

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... demonstrate the use of speech in HCI we have combined speech recognition together with speech synthesis into our software running in T-Engine. This software allow users to use speech- commands to ... researches in speech recognition and synthesis have been started in recent years. Together with the developing trend of human-computer interaction systems using speech, the optimization of speech ... in table II. Fig.7. Waiting for speech commands from users screen shot V. APPLICATION OF VIETNAMESE RECOGNITION AND SYNTHESIS Vietnamese speech recognition and synthesis has a wide range of application,...

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... the mother asked the twins. → The mother asked the twins IV Complete the sentences in reported speech. Note the change of pronouns in some sentences. 1 She said, "Go upstairs." → She ... "Meet me at the cinema." he said. → He asked me V Complete the sentences in reported speech. Note whether the sentence is a request, a statement or a question. 1 He said, "I like ... stuntman told the audience. → The stuntman advised the audience VI Complete the sentences in reported speech. Note whether the sentence is a request, a statement or a question and whether you have...

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... chốn: Direct Speech Reported Speech 1. today/tonight 2. yesterday 3. last week 4. ago 1. that day/ that night 2. the day before 3. the week before 4. before REPORTED SPEECH (INDIRECT SPEECH) STATEMENTS 1. ... He asked me why I had gone with her father the week before. b. Thì của động từ: Direct Speech Reported Speech 1. Present Simple:V1 2. Present Progressive: am/is/are+V-ing 3. Present Perfect: ... your dictionary for a moment?” Nga asked Hoa ……………………………………………………………………………. REPORTED SPEECH (INDIRECT SPEECH) WH - QUESTIONS. 1. Đổi động từ giới thiệu sang : “asked” . 2. Giữ nguyên nghi vấn...

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... sentence. If the model selection is done ef- ficiently, this approach runs as fast as running just one model, yet can give more robust performance. The premise of this dynamic model selection is that ... 2012. c 2012 Association for Computational Linguistics Fast and Robust Part-of -Speech Tagging Using Dynamic Model Selection Jinho D. Choi Department of Computer Science University of Colorado ... Linguistics, ACL’07, pages 760–767. Anders Søgaard. 2011. Semi-supervised condensed nearest neighbor for part-of -speech tagging. In Pro- ceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Associa- tion for Computational...

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... form of synthesis that incorporates the quali- ties of individual voices is concatenative synthesis. In this type of synthesis, units of recorded speech are appended. By using recorded speech, ... between the speech units being appended. Thus the speech rec- orded must be more uniform in pitch and ampli- tude. In addition, the units cannot be mispronounced because each unit is crucial ... segments of speech. Appending larger the units of speech results in smoother, more natural sounding synthesis, but requires many hours of recording, often...

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... Request for Proposal For Selection of Project Management Unit For Pension and Life Insurance Fund 28 Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs ... project management shall be included for evaluation. Request for Proposal For Selection of Project Management Unit For Pension and Life Insurance Fund 33 Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs ... 6. Scope of the Project 7. Contract Value Request for Proposal For Selection of Project Management Unit For Pension and Life Insurance Fund 17 Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs...

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