Speaker identity is one of the important characteristics of human speech. In voice
conversion, we change the speaker identity from one to another, while keeping the linguistic …

Language is more than words: it includes the prosodic features and patterns that we use,
subconsciously, to frame meanings and achieve our goals in our interaction with others …

Virtual Humans provides a much-needed definition of what constitutes a 'virtual human'and
places virtual humans within the wider context of Artificial Intelligence development. It …

The text to speech technology has achieved significant progress during the past decade and
is an active area of research and development in providing different human–computer …

In previous work we proposed a method to control the characteristics of synthetic speech
flexibly by integrating articulatory features into a hidden Markov model (HMM) based …

Speech synthesis systems are typically built with speech data and transcriptions. In this
paper, we try to build synthesis systems when no transcriptions or knowledge about the …

For query-by-example spoken term detection (QbE-STD), generation of phone
posteriorgrams requires labelled data which would be difficult for languages with low …

Text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) has progressed to such a stage that given a large, clean,
phonetically balanced dataset from a single speaker, it can produce intelligible, almost …

Unsupervised discovery of subword units is an important problem in recognition and
synthesis of zero-resource languages, in which phonesets may not be known and the only …

This study investigates the use of articulatory features for speech-driven head motion
synthesis as opposed to prosody features such as F0 and energy which have been mainly …