In the present work we study the appropriateness of a number of linear and non-linear regression methods, employed on the task of speech segmentation, for combining multiple phone...
: All speech produced by humans includes information about the speaker, including conveying the emotional state of the speaker. It is thus desirable to include vocal affect in any ...
This paper describes the design and evaluation of prosodically-sensitive concatenative units for a Korean text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system. The diphones used are prosodically...
The use of quality information for multilevel speaker recognition systems is addressed in this contribution. From a definition of what constitutes a quality measure, two applicati...
Grammar induction, also known as grammar inference, is one of the most important research areas in the domain of natural language processing. Availability of large corpora has enc...