Expression in Speech: Analysis and Synthesis

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    Expression in Speech: Analysis and Synthesis

    More This book is about the nature of expression in speech. Bibliographic Information Print publication date: Authors Affiliations are at time of print publication. Print Save Cite Email Share. Subscriber Login Email Address. Front Matter Title Pages Acknowledgements. He researches the theory of the production and perception of speech within the general theory of linguistics. He has taught phonology, computational modelling, and speech aspects of neuro-psychology at the University of California and the University of Ohio.

    She has published research in modelling speech production and perception within the overall framework of human communication, constrained by linguistic theory. Tatham and Morton offer a far-sighted perspective to this topic and make explicit many issues the developer of synthesis systems might not think about at all. Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide.

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    To purchase, visit your preferred ebook provider. Oxford Scholarship Online This book is available as part of Oxford Scholarship Online - view abstracts and keywords at book and chapter level. Genglish therefore has a rather limited lexicon, but its pronunciation maintains most of the problems encountered in natural languages. The goal of the MBROLA project is to obtain a set a high quality speech synthesizers for as many languages as possible, free for use in non-commercial applications. The ultimate goal is to boost up academic research on speech synthesis, and particularly on prosody generation, known as one of the biggest challenges in Text-to-Speech Synthesis for the years to come.

    As of , 26 languages are available, and ore than 50 voices. Many other languages are in preparation. HTS provides intelligibility and expressivity, it is flexible, easily adapted and with small footprint but on the other hand it is not reactive to real time user input and control.

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    Mark Tatham and Katherine Morton. It is a comprehensive exploration of how such expression is produced and understood, and of how the emotional content of spoken words may be analysed, modelled, tested, and synthesized. Listeners can interpret tone-of-voice, assess emotional pitch. Request PDF on ResearchGate | Expression in Speech: Analysis and Synthesis | This book is about the nature of expression in speech. It is a comprehensive.

    Going one step further, towards on the fly control over the synthesised speech we developed pHTS performative HTS that allows reactive speech synthesis and MAGE that is the engine independent and thread safe layer of pHTS that can be used in reactive application designs. This will enable performative creation of synthetic speech, from a single or multiple users, in one or multiple platforms, using different user interfaces and applications.

    The MediaTIC project - This ambitious project falls within the scope of measure 2. More concretely, the project's objective is to increase the competitiveness of innovating technological SMEs in Wallonia through collective projects dictated by concrete industrial requests. To reach that goal, Multitel, as a project leader, has gathered a consortium composed of academic entities and research centres split all over the Walloon territory.

    By calling upon complementary partners, Multitel aimed at providing MediaTIC with the typical action leverages of a collaborative research and allowing the projects focusing towards common objectives.

    MediaTIC is a portfolio of six integrated projects oriented towards specific industrial needs. Each one is run by a specialist from Multitel in the targeted field.

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    Intelligibility and expressivity have become the keywords in speech synthesis. In October , B. Print Save Cite Email Share. She has published research in modelling speech production and perception within the overall framework of human communication, constrained by linguistic theory. The STOP project - In seeking to explain the production and perception of emotive content, the book reviews the potential of biological and cognitive models. In the future, applications oriented towards voice conversion and expressive speech synthesis could also be carried out.

    It aims at designing and developing multimodal architectures giving a strong importance to emotions, for Arts and Entertainment. The global idea of the project is that New Medias, targeting recognition and production of emotions, can enhance users' or spectators' experience and interaction. CALLAS is thus investigating how, at the input level, emotions can be detected and how, at the output level, these emotions can be processed to generate a new audiovisual content enriching users' experience.

    The input modalities include both vocal and body languages recorded through video cameras and haptic devices. In order to improve the recognition of emotions, the problem of merging the information coming from these different modalities will also be examined.

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    The applications are ranging from digital theatre productions playing an audio or visual content in relation with the actors' and spectators' feelings to real or virtual museum tours taking the visitor's interest into account to reshape the exposition and select the level of information its audioguide will give , without forgetting interactive television modifying a scenario according to the spectator's emotions. Its main goal is to foster the development of new media technologies through digital performances and installations, in connection with local companies and artists.

    It is performed as a series of short 3-months projects, typically 3 or 4 of them in parallel, which are concluded by a 1-week "hands on" workshop. Numediart is the result of collaboration between Polytech. It also benefits from the expertise of the Multitel research center on multimedia and telecommunications.

    The KWS Predict project - Automatic speech recognition has a huge importance in the field of automatic indexing of audiovisual documents. Indexing time widespread broadcast news is a challenge from a vocabulary point of view, because of new words, new names, new places. In this case, we just need the phonetic translation of the new words that have to be detected. Every keywords are not equals in terms of "detectability". The work focuses on the prediction of keyword spotting performances, and on keyword spotting accuracy improvement by adapting decision parameters given a priori information on the words to be detected.

    Intelligibility and expressivity have become the keywords in speech synthesis. For this, a system HTS based on the statistical generation of voice parameters from Hidden Markov Models has recently shown its potential efficiency and flexibility. Nevertheless this approach has not yet reached its maturity and is limited by the buzziness it produces. This latter inconvenience is undoubtedly due to the parametrical representation of speech inducing a lack of voice quality.

    The first part of this thesis is consequently devoted to the high-quality analysis of speech. In the future, applications oriented towards voice conversion and expressive speech synthesis could also be carried out. Human speech contains a lot of paralinguistic sounds conveying information about the speaker's affective state.

    Laughter is one of those signals. Due to its high variability, both inter- and intra- speaker one same person will laugh differently depending on its emotional state, environment, etc.

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    In the framework of the CALLAS project, our study aims at catching the global patterns of laughter in order to develop algorithms to detect it in real-time and to produce natural laughter utterances. Potential uses cover the broad range of applications using automatic speech recognition and synthesis for human computer interactions.

    There are various methods of analysis aiming at classifying vocal pathologies, but none is really powerful. First of all, the "perceptive" analysis makes it possible to the doctor to qualify the quality of the voice according to several criteria, the problem of this method being subjectivity of the judgement. That's why specialists prefer the "acoustic" analysis, computer-assisted method consisting in calculating on the vocal signal a series of objective parameters which are used to qualify the voice of the patient.

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    But this method is only effective to analyze supported vowels, and thus not continuous speech, what would be more suitable. Moreover, the strongly hoarse speakers are unable to produce pseudoperiodic speech. The project implements the simultaneous analysis of the vocal signals and the images of the vibration of the vocal cords and aims, in addition to the realization of a clinical prototype, the realization of a portable device intended to ensure a follow-up of the patients at the risk on their workplace.