Technical Program

SP-P8: Speech Synthesis III

Session Type: Poster

Time: Thursday, March 18, 10:00 - 12:00

Location: Poster Area A

Session Chair: Simon King, Univ Edinburgh, UK

SP-P8.1: RICH-CONTEXT UNIT SELECTION (RUS) APPROACH TO HIGH QUALITY TTS

Zhi-Jie Yan; Microsoft Research Asia

Yao Qian; Microsoft Research Asia

Frank K. Soong; Microsoft Research Asia

SP-P8.2: UNIT SELECTION SPEECH SYNTHESIS USING MULTIPLE SPEECH UNITS AT NON-ADJACENT SEGMENTS FOR PROSODY AND WAVEFORM GENERATION

Masatsune Tamura; Toshiba Corporation

Norbert Braunschweiler; Toshiba Research Europe Limited

Takehiko Kagoshima; Toshiba Corporation

Masami Akamine; Toshiba Corporation

SP-P8.3: PERCEPTUAL EVALUATION OF DYNAMIC COST WEIGHTING FOR UNIT SELECTION TTS

Jerome Bellegarda; Apple Inc.

SP-P8.4: SYNTHESIS OF FILLED PAUSES BASED ON A DISFLUENT SPEECH MODEL

Jordi Adell; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Antonio Bonafonte; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

David Escudero; Universidad de Valladolid

SP-P8.5: PARAMETRIC EMOTIONAL SINGING VOICE SYNTHESIS

Younsung Park; Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Sungrack Yun; Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Chang D. Yoo; Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

SP-P8.6: HIGH-QUALITY AND LIGHT-WEIGHT VOICE TRANSFORMATION ENABLING EXTRAPOLATION WITHOUT PERCEPTUAL AND OBJECTIVE BREAKDOWN

Hideki Kawahara; Wakayama University

Ryuichi Nisimura; Wakayama University

Toshio Irino; Wakayama University

Masanori Morise; Ritsumeikan University

Toru Takahashi; Kyoto University

Hideki Banno; Meijo University

SP-P8.7: NON-PARALLEL TRAINING FOR MANY-TO-MANY EIGENVOICE CONVERSION

Yamato Ohtani; Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Tomoki Toda; Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Hiroshi Saruwatari; Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Kiyohiro Shikano; Nara Institute of Science and Technology

SP-P8.8: PRONUNCIATION VARIATION GENERATION FOR SPONTANEOUS SPEECH SYNTHESIS USING STATE-BASED VOICE TRANSFORMATION

Chung-Han Lee; National Cheng Kung University

Chung-Hsien Wu; National Cheng Kung University

Jun-Cheng Guo; National Cheng Kung University

SP-P8.9: HMM-BASED SEQUENCE-TO-FRAME MAPPING FOR VOICE CONVERSION

Yu Qiao; University of Tokyo

Daisuke Saito; University of Tokyo

Nobuaki Minematsu; University of Tokyo

SP-P8.10: HIGH QUALITY VOICE MANIPULATION METHOD BASED ON THE VOCAL TRACT AREA FUNCTION OBTAINED FROM SUB-BAND LSP OF STRAIGHT SPECTRUM

Ayanori Arakawa; Meijo University

Yoshinori Uchimura; Meijo University

Hideki Banno; Meijo University

Fumitada Itakura; Meijo University

Hideki Kawahara; Wakayama University

SP-P8.11: VTLN ADAPTATION FOR STATISTICAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS

Lakshmi Saheer; Idiap Research Institute and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Philip N. Garner; Idiap Research Institute

John Dines; Idiap Research Institute

Hui Liang; Idiap Research Institute and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

SP-P8.12: NORMALIZATION OF TEXT MESSAGES FOR TEXT-TO-SPEECH

Deana Pennell; University of Texas at Dallas

Yang Liu; University of Texas at Dallas