SPE-P5: Speech Synthesis II |
| Session Type: Poster |
| Time: Wednesday, April 22, 09:30 - 11:30 |
| Location: Poster Area D, TICC |
| Session Chair: Tomoki Toda, Nara Institute of Science and Technology |
| SPE-P5.1: OPTIMAL LEARNING OF P-LAYER ADDITIVE F0 MODELS WITH CROSS-VALIDATION |
| Shinsuke Sakai; NICT |
| Tatsuya Kawahara; Kyoto University |
| Tohru Shimizu; NICT |
| Satoshi Nakamura; NICT |
| SPE-P5.2: EFFICIENT GRADIENT F0 TREE MODEL FOR PROSODY MODELING AND UNIT-SELECTION, APPLIED FOR THE EMBEDDED US ENGLISH CONCATENATIVE TTS |
| Slava Shechtman; IBM Research |
| Ryuki Tachibana; IBM Research |
| SPE-P5.3: CART-BASED MODELING OF CHINESE TONAL PATTERNS WITH A FUNCTIONAL MODEL TRACING THE FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY TRAJECTORIES |
| Jinfu Ni; NICT/ATR-SLC |
| Shinsuke Sakai; NICT/ATR-SLC |
| Tohru Shimizu; NICT/ATR-SLC |
| Satoshi Nakamura; NICT/ATR-SLC |
| SPE-P5.4: CONTROL OF PROSODIC FOCUS IN CORPUS-BASED GENERATION OF FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY CONTOURS OF JAPANESE BASED ON THE GENERATION PROCESS MODEL |
| Keiko Ochi; University of Tokyo |
| Keikichi Hirose; University of Tokyo |
| Nobuaki Minematsu; University of Tokyo |
| SPE-P5.5: NEW STRATEGIES FOR PRONUNCIATION BY ANALOGY |
| Tatyana Polyákova; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya |
| Antonio Bonafonte; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya |
| SPE-P5.6: ITERATIVE FILTERING OF PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTIONS OF PROPER NOUNS |
| Antoine Laurent; Laboratoire Informatique Université du Maine (LIUM) |
| Teva Merlin; Laboratoire Informatique Université du Maine (LIUM) |
| Sylvain Meignier; Laboratoire Informatique Université du Maine (LIUM) |
| Yannick Estève; Laboratoire Informatique Université du Maine (LIUM) |
| Paul Deléglise; Laboratoire Informatique Université du Maine (LIUM) |
| SPE-P5.7: OPTIMIZATION OF TEXT DATABASE USING HIERACHICAL CLUSTERING |
| Jilei Tian; Nokia |
| Jani Nurminen; Nokia |
| SPE-P5.8: STATE MAPPING FOR CROSS-LANGUAGE SPEAKER ADAPTATION IN TTS |
| Yi-Ning Chen; Microsoft Research Asia |
| Yang Jiao; Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications |
| Yao Qian; Microsoft Research Asia |
| Frank K. Soong; Microsoft Research Asia |
| SPE-P5.9: QUALITY CONTROL OF AUTOMATIC LABELLING USING HMM-BASED SYNTHESIS |
| Sathish Pammi; DFKI GmbH |
| Marcela Charfuelan; DFKI GmbH |
| Marc Schröder; DFKI GmbH |
| SPE-P5.10: PHONEME CLUSTER BASED STATE MAPPING FOR TEXT-INDEPENDENT VOICE CONVERSION |
| Meng Zhang; Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Jianhua Tao; Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Jani Nurminen; Nokia |
| Jilei Tian; Nokia |
| Xia Wang; Nokia |
| SPE-P5.11: APPLYING IMPROVED SPECTRAL MODELING FOR HIGH QUALITY VOICE CONVERSION |
| Fernando Villavicencio; Music Technology Group |
| Axel Röbel; IRCAM |
| Xavier Rodet; IRCAM |
| SPE-P5.12: WEB-DERIVED PRONUNCIATIONS |
| Arnab Ghoshal; Johns Hopkins University |
| Martin Jansche; Google, Inc. |
| Sanjeev Khudanpur; Johns Hopkins University |
| Michael Riley; Google, Inc. |
| Morgan Ulinski; Cornell University |