Technical Program
SP-L9: Prosody in Speech Synthesis |
| Session Type: Lecture |
| Time: Friday, May 31, 08:00 - 10:00 |
| Location: Room 211 |
| Session Chair: Heiga Zen, Google UK Ltd. |
| SP-L9.1: UNSUPERVISED PROSODIC PHRASE BOUNDARY LABELING OF MANDARIN SPEECH SYNTHESIS DATABASE USING CONTEXT-DEPENDENT HMM |
| Chen-Yu Yang; University of Science and Technology of China |
| Zhen-Hua Ling; University of Science and Technology of China |
| Li-Rong Dai; University of Science and Technology of China |
| SP-L9.2: TRAINING A SUPRA-SEGMENTAL PARAMETRIC F0 MODEL WITHOUT INTERPOLATING F0 |
| Javier Latorre; Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. |
| Mark J.F. Gales; Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. |
| Kate Knill; Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. |
| Masami Akamine; Toshiba Corporate Research & Development Center |
| SP-L9.3: F0 CONTOUR PREDICTION WITH A DEEP BELIEF NETWORK-GAUSSIAN PROCESS HYBRID MODEL |
| Raul Fernandez; IBM Research |
| Asaf Rendel; IBM Research |
| Bhuvana Ramabhadran; IBM Research |
| Ron Hoory; IBM Research |
| SP-L9.4: ACCENT GROUP MODELING FOR IMPROVED PROSODY IN STATISTICAL PARAMETERIC SPEECH SYNTHESIS |
| Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli; INESC-ID/IST; Carnegie Mellon University |
| Luís C. Oliveira; INESC-ID/IST |
| Alan W. Black; Carnegie Mellon University |
| SP-L9.5: SPEAKER'S INTENTIONS CONVEYED TO LISTENERS BY SENTENCE-FINAL PARTICLES AND THEIR INTONATIONS IN JAPANESE CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH |
| Kazuhiko Iwata; Waseda University |
| Tetsunori Kobayashi; Waseda University |
| SP-L9.6: A SPEAKING RATE-CONTROLLED MANDARIN TTS SYSTEM |
| Chiao-Hua Hsieh; National Chiao Tung University |
| Yih-Ru Wang; National Chiao Tung University |
| Chen-Yu Chiang; National Taipei University |
| Sin-Horng Chen; National Chiao Tung University |