Vocoding of speech is a standard part of statistical parametric speech synthesis systems. It
imposes an upper bound of the naturalness that can possibly be achieved. Hybrid systems …

Humans are known to use a wide range of non-verbal behaviour while speaking.
Generating naturalistic embodied speech for an artificial agent is therefore an application …

Can a robot understand a human's social behavior? Moreover, how should a robot act in
response to a human's behavior? If the goals of artificial intelligence are to understand …

A synthetic voice personifies the system using it. In this work we examine the impact text
content, voice quality and synthesis system have on the perceived personality of two …

Speech is the most natural mode of communication and yet attempts to build systems which
support robust habitable conversations between a human and a machine have so far had …

CereProc R OLtd. have recently released a beta version of a commercial unit selection
synthesiser featuring XML control of speech style. The system is freely available for …

The goal of this project was to build a unit selection voice that could portray emotions with
varying intensities. A suitable definition of an emotion was developed along with a …

The processes of language demise take hold when a language ceases to belong to the
mainstream of life's activities. Digital communication technology increasingly pervades all …

During the last years there has been an increasing interest in the area of service robots.
Under this category we find robots working in tasks such as elderly care, guiding, office and …

In this paper, we present a Text to Speech (TTS) synthesis system for Bangla language
using the opensource Festival TTS engine. Festival is a complete TTS synthesis system, with …