The lack of prosody variation in text-to-speech systems contributes to their perceived
unnaturalness when synthesizing extended passages. In this paper, we present a method to …

Speech synthesis can be an important modality in Cognitive Infocommunications
(CogInfoCom). Speech output is beneficial when the visual output of a system is blocked or …

In this paper, a structural maximum a posteriori (SMAP) speaker adaptation approach to
adjusting the speaking rate (SR)-dependent hierarchical prosodic model (SR-HPM) of an …

This paper deals with the design of a speech corpus for a corpus-based Text-To-Speech
(TTS) synthesis approach. The purposes are first to provide enough speech to develop …

Announcements at railway stations are a major information source for passengers. In order
to ensure high intelligibility, the traditional solution is to use recorded prompts with “slot …

This article presents research and development aimed at creating a Polish speech database
for speech synthesis and adapting BOSS (The Bonn Open Synthesis System) to the Polish …

This paper gives an overview of the design concepts and implementation of a Hungarian
microblog reading system. Speech synthesis of such special text requires some special …

Smart mobile devices support web technologies, audio and video playback, integrated extra
features and 3rd party development beyond telephony. Multimodal user interfaces are …

Bevezetés A beszédkutatás eszköztára egyre gazdagodik a számítógépes támogatás te
kintetében. Számos, ma már ingyen is hozzáférhető szoftver segíti a kutatókat, hogy minél …

Unit selection based text-to-speech systems can generally obtain high speech quality
provided that the database is large enough. In embedded applications, the related memory …