Pronunciation Variant Selection for Spontaneous Speech Synthesis-Listening Effort As a Quality Parameter

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Werner ◽  
M. Wolff ◽  
R. Hoffmann
Keyword(s):  
Speech Synthesis ◽  
Spontaneous Speech ◽  
Quality Parameter ◽  
Variant Selection ◽  
Listening Effort ◽  
Selection For

Data selection for naturalness in HMM-based speech synthesis

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica Cooper ◽  
Yocheved Levitan ◽  
Julia Hirschberg
Keyword(s):  
Speech Synthesis ◽  
Data Selection ◽  
Selection For

Maximum likelihood unit selection for corpus-based speech synthesis

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abubeker Gamboa Rosales ◽  
Hamurabi Gamboa Rosales ◽  
Ruediger Hoffmann
Keyword(s):  
Maximum Likelihood ◽  
Speech Synthesis ◽  
Unit Selection ◽  
Selection For

Toward Spontaneous Speech Synthesis—Utilizing Language Model Information in TTS

2004 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 436-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Werner ◽  
M. Eichner ◽  
M. Wolff ◽  
R. Hoffmann
Keyword(s):  
Speech Synthesis ◽  
Language Model ◽  
Spontaneous Speech

Microcontroller memory capability assessment and variant selection for reducing the cost of mechatronics

2012 ◽  
Vol 60 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 248
Author(s):  
C. Quigley ◽  
R.P. Jones ◽  
R. McMurran ◽  
P. Faithfull
Keyword(s):  
Variant Selection ◽  
Selection For ◽  
The Cost

Toward hidden Markov model‐based spontaneous speech synthesis

2006 ◽  
Vol 120 (5) ◽  
pp. 3037-3038
Author(s):  
Tatsuya Akagawa ◽  
Koji Iwano ◽  
Sadaoki Furui
Keyword(s):  
Markov Model ◽  
Hidden Markov Model ◽  
Speech Synthesis ◽  
Hidden Markov ◽  
Spontaneous Speech ◽  
Model Based

Application of Genetic Algorithm in unit selection for Malay speech synthesis system

2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 5376-5383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yee Chea Lim ◽  
Tian Swee Tan ◽  
Sheikh Hussain Shaikh Salleh ◽  
Dandy Kwong Ling
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Speech Synthesis ◽  
Synthesis System ◽  
Unit Selection ◽  
Selection For

Searching for standard French: The construction and mining of the Recueil historique des grammaires du français

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shana Poplack ◽  
Lidia-Gabriela Jarmasz ◽  
Nathalie Dion ◽  
Nicole Rosen
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Spontaneous Speech ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Variant Selection ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Form Function ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Quebec French ◽  
Contextual Elements ◽  
Meta Analyses

AbstractThis paper describes a massive project to characterize “Standard French” by constructing and mining the Recueil historique des grammaires du français (RHGF), a corpus of grammars whose prescriptive dictates we interpret as representing the evolution of the standard over five centuries. Its originality lies in the possibility it affords to ascertain the existence of prior variability, date it, and determine the conditions under which grammarians accept or condemn variant uses. Systematic meta-analyses of the RHGF reveal that grammarians rarely acknowledge the existence of alternate ways of expressing the same thing. Instead, they adopt three major strategies to establish form-function symmetry. All involve partitioning competing variants across distinct social, semantic or linguistic contexts, despite pervasive disagreement over which variant to associate with which. This effectively factors out variability. In contrast, systematic analysis of actual language use, as instantiated in the spontaneous speech of 323 speakers of Quebec French over an apparent-time period of a century and a half, reveals robust variability, regularly conditioned by contextual elements which have never been acknowledged by grammarians. This conditioning has remained largely stable since at least the mid-nineteenth century. Taken together, these results indicate that the “rules” for variant selection promulgated by grammarians do not inform the spoken language, nor do grammars take account of the variable rules structuring spontaneous speech. As a result, grammar and usage are evolving independently.

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