Browsing by Author "Bonafonte Cávez, Antonio"
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A bilingual Spanish-Catalan database of units for concatenative synthesis
(1998)
Conference report
Open AccessDifferent databases of phonetic units are required in multilingual Text-to-Speech systems based on concatenative synthesis. We are currently developing a TTS system able to convert text either in Catalan and Spanish, with ... -
A billingual texto-to-speech system in spanish and catalan
(Editors: G. Kokkinakis, N. Fakotakis, E. Dermatas; Editorial: WCL, University of Patras, Grece, 1997)
Conference report
Open AccessThis paper summarises the text-to-speech system that has been developed during the last years in the Speech Group of the Universitat Politccnica de Catalunya (UPC). The paper emphasises the parts of the system which are ... -
Acoustic feature prediction from semantic features for expressive speech using deep neural networks
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThe goal of the study is to predict acoustic features of expressive speech from semantic vector space representations. Though a lot of successful work was invested in expressiveness analysis and prediction, the results ... -
Albayzin speech database: design of the phonetic corpus
(. EUROSPEECH, 1993)
Conference report
Open AccessThis paper describes the phonetic content of Albayzin, a spoken database for Spanish designed for speech recognition purposes. A statistical study of a large sample of spontaneous speech is presented, and the phonetic and ... -
An efficient algorithm to find the best state sequence in HSMM
(1993)
Conference report
Open AccessHidden Markov Modeling (HMM) techniques have been applied successfully to speech analysis. However, it has been claimed [1-7] that a major weakness of HMM is that the state duration probability density functions (SDPDF) ... -
Aneto: a tool for prosody analysis of speech
(Institut de l'Audiovisual, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 1998)
Conference report
Open AccessThe developed tool provides utilities for prosody analysis and labeling of voice signals. It works under Windows 95 and Windows NT environments and uses the Microsoft Win32 application programming interface (API) for audio ... -
Apuntes de Senyals i sistemes I
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2009)
Lecture notes
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BUCEADOR hybrid TTS for blizzard challenge 2011
(2011)
Conference report
Open AccessThis paper describes the Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems presented by the Buceador Consortium in the Blizzard Challenge 2011 evaluation campaign. The main system is a concatenative hybrid one that tries to combine the strong ... -
BUCEADOR, a multi-language search engine for digital libraries
(2012)
Conference lecture
Open AccessThis paper presents a web-based multimedia search engine built within the Buceador (www.buceador.org) research project. A proof-of-concept tool has been implemented which is able to retrieve information from a digital ... -
Building synthetic voices in the META-NET framework
(2012)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyMETANET 4 U is a European project aiming at supporting language technology for European languages and multilingualism. It is a project in the META-NET Network of Excellence, a cluster of projects aiming at fostering the ... -
Building synthetic voices in the METANET framework
(2012)
Conference lecture
Open AccessMETANET4U is a European project aiming at supporting language technology for European languages and multilingualism. It is a project in the META-NET Network of Excellence, a cluster of projects aiming at fostering the ... -
Corpus for cyberbullying prevention
(International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), 2018)
Conference report
Open AccessCyberbullying is the use of digital media to harass a person or group of people, through personal attacks, disclosure of confidential or false information, among other means. That is to say, it ... -
Creating expressive synthetic voices by unsupervised clustering of audiobooks
(International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), 2015)
Conference lecture
Restricted access - publisher's policyIn this work we design an approach for automatic feature selection and voice creation for expressive synthesis. Our approach is guided by two main goals: (1) increasing the flexibility of expressive voice creation and (2) ... -
Deep neural networks for i-vector language identification of short utterances in cars
(International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), 2016)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThis paper is focused on the application of the Language Identification (LID) technology for intelligent vehicles. We cope with short sentences or words spoken in moving cars in four languages: English, Spanish, German, ... -
Defining analogy for non-native inclusions in Spanish utterances
(2010)
Conference report
Open AccessMass media globalization introduces the challenge of multilingualism into most popular speech applications such as text-tospeech synthesis and automatic speech recognition. In Spain as well as in the other countries, the ... -
Direct expressive voice training based on semantic selection
(International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), 2016)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThis work aims at creating expressive voices from audiobooks using semantic selection. First, for each utterance of the audiobook an acoustic feature vector is extracted, including iVectors built on MFCC and on F0 ... -
Duration modeling with expanded HMM applied to speech recognition
(H. TIMOTHY BRUMMELL, WILLIAM IDSARDI CITATION DELAWARE, NEW CASTLE, DELAWARE, 1996)
Conference lecture
Open AccessThe occupancy of the HMM states is modeled by means of a Markov chain. A linear estimator is introduced to compute the probabilities of the Markov chain. The distribution function (DF) represents accurately the observed ... -
Examen Final
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2012-06-10)
Exam
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Explicit segmentation of speech using gaussian models
(H. TIMOTHY BRUMMELL, WILLIAM IDSARDI CITATION DELAWARE, NEW CASTLE, DELAWARE, 1996)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThe authors investigate an automatic method to segment labeled speech. The method needs an initial estimation of the segmentation which is provided by an alignment based on HMM. Afterwards, the boundaries are refined moving ... -
Exploring efficient neural architectures for linguistic-acoustic mapping in text-to-speech
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019-08-17)
Article
Open AccessConversion from text to speech relies on the accurate mapping from linguistic to acoustic symbol sequences, for which current practice employs recurrent statistical models such as recurrent neural networks. Despite the ...
