Deep mixture density networks for acoustic modeling in statistical parametric speech synthesis

H Zen, A Senior - … conference on acoustics, speech and signal …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Statistical parametric speech synthesis (SPSS) using deep neural networks (DNNs) has
shown its potential to produce naturally-sounding synthesized speech. However, there are …

Deep convolutional mixture density network for inverse design of layered photonic structures

R Unni, K Yao, Y Zheng - ACS photonics, 2020 - ACS Publications
Machine learning (ML) techniques, such as neural networks, have emerged as powerful
tools for the inverse design of nanophotonic structures. However, this innovative approach …

[PDF][PDF] Announcing the electromagnetic articulography (day 1) subset of the mngu0 articulatory corpus

K Richmond, P Hoole, S King - Twelfth Annual Conference of the …, 2011 - researchgate.net
This paper serves as an initial announcement of the availability of a corpus of articulatory
data called mngu0. This corpus will ultimately consist of a collection of multiple sources of …

Integrating articulatory features into HMM-based parametric speech synthesis

ZH Ling, K Richmond, J Yamagishi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an investigation into ways of integrating articulatory features into hidden
Markov model (HMM)-based parametric speech synthesis. In broad terms, this may be …

The use of articulatory movement data in speech synthesis applications: An overview—application of articulatory movements using machine learning algorithms—

K Richmond, Z Ling, J Yamagishi - Acoustical Science and …, 2015 - jstage.jst.go.jp
This paper describes speech processing work in which articulator movements are used in
conjunction with the acoustic speech signal and/or linguistic information. By ''articulator …

Using object affordances to improve object recognition

C Castellini, T Tommasi, N Noceti… - IEEE transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The problem of object recognition has not yet been solved in its general form. The most
successful approach to it so far relies on object models obtained by training a statistical …

Acoustic-articulatory modeling with the trajectory HMM

L Zhang, S Renals - IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we introduce an hidden Markov model (HMM)-based inversion system to
recovery articulatory movements from speech acoustics. Trajectory HMMs are used as …

Continuous stochastic feature mapping based on trajectory HMMs

H Zen, Y Nankaku, K Tokuda - IEEE Transactions on Audio …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a technique of continuous stochastic feature mapping based on
trajectory hidden Markov models (HMMs), which have been derived from HMMs by imposing …

Retrieving tract variables from acoustics: a comparison of different machine learning strategies

V Mitra, H Nam, CY Espy-Wilson… - IEEE journal of …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many different studies have claimed that articulatory information can be used to improve the
performance of automatic speech recognition systems. Unfortunately, such articulatory …

An analysis of HMM-based prediction of articulatory movements

ZH Ling, K Richmond, J Yamagishi - Speech Communication, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper presents an investigation into predicting the movement of a speaker's mouth from
text input using hidden Markov models (HMM). A corpus of human articulatory movements …