This paper introduces new open speech datasets for three of the languages of Spain:
Basque, Catalan and Galician. Catalan is furthermore the official language of the Principality …

High-quality audio data is a critical prerequisite for training robust text-to-speech models,
which often limits the use of opportunistic or crowdsourced datasets. This paper presents an …

Catalan is recognized as the largest stateless language in Europe hence it is a language
well studied in the field of speech, and there exists various solutions for Automatic Speech …

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 …

Current generative text-to-speech (TTS) models are very robust and capable of learning the
phonetics of a language almost perfectly. To do so, it remains crucial that the speech data …

Este artículo presenta un conversor texto a voz basado en síntesis estadística que por
primera vez permite disponer en un único sistema de las cuatro lenguas oficiales en …

Speaker adaptation techniques can be classified as intra-lingual or cross-lingual depending
on whether or not the source model and the target speaker employ the same language. Most …

This paper deals with the creation of multiple voices from a Hidden Markov Model based
speech synthesis system (HTS). More than 150 Catalan synthetic voices were built using …

In a previous work we presented a method to combine the acoustic characteristics of a
speech synthesis model with the linguistic characteristics of another one. This paper …

This thesis gives formal definitions of discourse-givenness, coreference and reference, and
reports on experiments with computational models of discourse-givenness of noun phrases …