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    • Glissando: a corpus for multidisciplinary prosodic studies in Spanish and Catalan 

      Garrido, Juan Maria; Escudero, David; Aguilar, Lourdes; Cardeñoso Payo, V.; Rodero, Emma; de-la-Mota, Carme; González, César; Vivaracho, C. E.; Rustullet, Sílvia; Larrea, Olatz; Laplaza, Yesika; Vizcaíno, Francisco; Estebas, Eva; Cabrera, Mercedes; Bonafonte Cávez, Antonio (2013-12)
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      Literature review on prosody reveals the lack of corpora for prosodic studies in Catalan and Spanish. In this paper, we present a corpus intended to fill this gap. The corpus comprises two distinct data-sets, a news subcorpus ...

    • Introducing nativization to Spanish TTS systems 

      Polyakova, Tatyana; Bonafonte Cávez, Antonio (2011-06)
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      In the modern world, speech technologies must be flexible and adaptable to any framework. Mass media globalization introduces multilingualism as a challenge for the most popular speech applications such as text-to-speech ...

    • Language and noise transfer in speech enhancement generative adversarial network 

      Pascual de la Puente, Santiago; Park, Maruchan; Serra, Joan; Bonafonte Cávez, Antonio; Ahn, Kang-hun (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
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      Speech enhancement deep learning systems usually require large amounts of training data to operate in broad conditions or real applications. This makes the adaptability of those systems into new, low resource environments ...

    • Language modeling using X-grams 

      Bonafonte Cávez, Antonio; Mariño Acebal, José Bernardo (H. TIMOTHY BRUMMELL, WILLIAM IDSARDI CITATION DELAWARE, NEW CASTLE, DELAWARE, 1996)
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      In this paper, an extension of n-grams, called x-grams, is proposed. In this extension, the memory of the model (n) is not fixed a priori. Instead, large memories are accepted first, and merging criteria are then applied ...

    • Multi-output RNN-LSTM for multiple speaker speech synthesis and adaptation 

      Pascual, Santiago; Bonafonte Cávez, Antonio (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016)
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      Deep Learning has been applied successfully to speech processing. In this paper we propose an architecture for speech synthesis using multiple speakers. Some hidden layers are shared by all the speakers, while there is a ...

    • Multi-output RNN-LSTM for multiple speaker speech synthesis with a-interpolation model 

      Pascual, Santiago; Bonafonte Cávez, Antonio (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016)
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      Deep Learning has been applied successfully to speech processing. In this paper we propose an architecture for speech synthesis using multiple speakers. Some hidden layers are shared by all the speakers, while there is a ...

    • Nativization of English words in Spanish using analogy 

      Polyakova, Tatyana; Bonafonte Cávez, Antonio (2010)
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      Nowadays modern speech technologies need to be flexible and adaptable to any framework. Mass media globalization introduces the challenge of multilingualism into most popular speech applications such as text-to-speech ...

    • Out-of-vocabulary word modelling and rejection for keyword spotting 

      Lleida Solano, Eduardo; Mariño, José B.; Salavedra Molí, Josep; Bonafonte Cávez, Antonio; Monte Moreno, Enrique (International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), 1993)
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      This paper presents a combination of out-of-vocabulary (OOV) word modeling and rejection techniques in an attempt to accept utterances embedding a keyword and reject utterances with nonkeywords. The goal of this research ...

    • Parametric modeling of PDF using a convolution of one-sided exponentials: application to HMM 

      Vidal Manzano, José; Bonafonte Cávez, Antonio; Rodríguez Fonollosa, José Adrián (European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP), 1994)
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    • Prosodic and spectral iVectors for expressive speech synthesis 

      Jauk, Igor; Bonafonte Cávez, Antonio (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016)
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      This work presents a study on the suitability of prosodic andacoustic features, with a special focus on i-vectors, in expressivespeech analysis and synthesis. For each utterance of two dif-ferent databases, a laboratory ...

    • Prosodic break prediction with RNNs 

      Pascual de la Puente, Santiago; Bonafonte Cávez, Antonio (Springer, 2016)
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      Prosodic breaks prediction from text is a fundamental task to obtain naturalness in text to speech applications. In this work we build a data-driven break predictor out of linguistic features like the Part of Speech (POS) ...

    • Rational characteristic functions and markov chains 

      Vidal Manzano, José; Bonafonte Cávez, Antonio; Losada, N; Rodríguez Fonollosa, José Adrián; Rodríguez Fonollosa, Javier (. S.N., 1995)
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      Abstract 1 We investigate in this paper how to estimate the density function of a random variable using a parametric ARMA model for its characteristic function. The choice of this model is motivated by the fact that this ...

    • Recent work on the FESTCAT database for speech synthesis 

      Bonafonte Cávez, Antonio; Esquerra Llucià, Ignasi; Aguilar, Lourdes; Oller Moreno, Sergio; Moreno Bilbao, M. Asunción (2009)
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      This paper presents our work around the FESTCAT project, whose main goal was the development of voices for the Festival suite in Catalan. In the first year, we produced the corpus and the speech data needed for build ...

    • Recognition of numbers by using demisyllables and hidden Markov models 

      Mariño Acebal, José Bernardo; Bonafonte Cávez, Antonio; Moreno Bilbao, M. Asunción; Lleida Solano, Eduardo; Nadeu Camprubí, Climent; Monte Moreno, Enrique (Elsevier, 1990)
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    • Reconocimiento del habla continua mediante modelos ocultos de Markov utilizando la técnica de búsqueda en haz 

      Lleida Solano, Eduardo; Mariño Acebal, José Bernardo; Bonafonte Cávez, Antonio (Universidad de Málaga, 1992)
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    • Search engine for multilingual audiovisual contents 

      Pérez, José David; Bonafonte Cávez, Antonio; Ruiz Costa-Jussà, Marta; Cardenal, Antonio; Rodríguez Fonollosa, José Adrián; Moreno Bilbao, M. Asunción; Navas, Eva; Rodríguez Banga, Eduardo (2012)
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      This paper describes the BUCEADOR search engine, a web server that allows retrieving. multimedia documents (text, audio, video) in different languages. All the documents are translated into the user language and are ...

    • SETHOS: the UPC speech understanding system 

      Bonafonte Cávez, Antonio; Mariño Acebal, José Bernardo; Nogueiras Rodríguez, Albino (H. TIMOTHY BRUMMELL, WILLIAM IDSARDI CITATION DELAWARE, NEW CASTLE, DELAWARE, 1996)
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      In EuroSpeech'95, the authors presented the first version of Sethos, the speech understanding system which has been developed at the UPC. In this paper some improvements are incorporated at different levels of Sethos: ...

    • Spanish statistical parametric speech synthesis using a neural vocoder 

      Bonafonte Cávez, Antonio; Pascual de la Puente, Santiago; Dorca, G. (International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), 2018)
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      During the 2000s decade, unit-selection based text-to-speech was the dominant commercial technology. Meanwhile, the TTS research community has made a big effort to push statistical-parametric speech synthesis to get similar ...

    • Speech emotion recognition using hidden Markov models 

      Nogueiras Rodríguez, Albino; Mariño Acebal, José Bernardo; Bonafonte Cávez, Antonio; Moreno Bilbao, M. Asunción (2001)
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      This paper introduces a first approach to emotion recognition using RAMSES, the UPC’s speech recognition system. The approach is based on standard speech recognition technology using hidden semi-continuous Markov models. ...

    • Study of subword units for spanish speech recognition 

      Bonafonte Cávez, Antonio; Estany, Rafael; Vives, Eugenio (ESCA - J.M. PARDO, E. ENRIQUEZ, J. ORTEGA, J. FERREIROS GTM-UPM, 1995)
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      This paper studies different sets of subword speech units to be used for recognizing Spanish. In particular it compares context dependent phones, syllables and demisyllables. It shows how context dependent units can ...