SPE-L2: Speech Synthesis I |
| Session Type: Lecture |
| Time: Tuesday, April 21, 11:00 - 13:00 |
| Location: Room 101A+B, TICC |
| Session Chair: Hideki Kawahara, Wakayama University |
| SPE-L2.1: PROBABLISTIC MODELLING OF F0 IN UNVOICED REGIONS IN HMM BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS |
| Kai Yu; Cambridge University |
| Tomoki Toda; Nara Institute of Science |
| Milica Gasic; Cambridge University |
| Simon Keizer; Cambridge University |
| Francois Mairesse; Cambridge University |
| Blaise Thomson; Cambridge University |
| Steve Young; Cambridge University |
| SPE-L2.2: RECENT IMPROVEMENTS OF PROBABILITY BASED PROSODY MODELS FOR UNIT SELECTION IN CONCATENATIVE TEXT-TO-SPEECH |
| Wei Zhang; IBM T. J. Watson Research Center |
| Liang Gu; IBM T. J. Watson Research Center |
| Yuqing Gao; IBM T. J. Watson Research Center |
| SPE-L2.3: IMPROVED PROSODY GENERATION BY MAXIMIZING JOINT LIKELIHOOD OF STATE AND LONGER UNITS |
| Yao Qian; Microsoft Research Asia |
| Zhizheng Wu; Microsoft Research Asia |
| Frank K. Soong; Microsoft Research Asia |
| SPE-L2.4: OPTIMIZING SEGMENT LABEL BOUNDARIES FOR STATISTICAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS |
| Alan W. Black; Carnegie Mellon University |
| John Kominek; Carnegie Mellon University |
| SPE-L2.5: COMPRESSION OF LINE SPECTRAL FREQUENCY PARAMETERS WITH ASYNCHRONOUS INTERPOLATION |
| Rachel Moldover; Oregon Health & Sciences University |
| Alexander Kain; Oregon Health & Sciences University |
| SPE-L2.6: USING A PITCH-SYNCHRONOUS RESIDUAL CODEBOOK FOR HYBRID HMM/FRAME SELECTION SPEECH SYNTHESIS |
| Thomas Drugman; Faculté Polytechnique de Mons |
| Geoffrey Wilfart; Acapela Group |
| Alexis Moinet; Faculté Polytechnique de Mons |
| Thierry Dutoit; Faculté Polytechnique de Mons |