This paper describes a speaker-adaptive HMM-based speech synthesis system. The new
system, called ldquoHTS-2007, rdquo employs speaker adaptation (CSMAPLR+ MAP) …

Speech synthesis has come a long way as current text-to-speech (TTS) models can now
generate natural human-sounding speech. However, most of the TTS research focuses on …

Text-to-speech options on augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices are
limited. Often, several individuals in a group setting use the same synthetic voice. This lack …

The synthesis of child speech presents challenges both in the collection of data and in the
building of a synthesizer from that data. We chose to build a statistical parametric …

Speech synthesis technology has witnessed significant advancements in recent years,
enabling the creation of natural and expressive synthetic speech. One area of particular …

The authors review developments in Computer Speech Synthesis (CSS) over the past two
decades, focusing on the relative advantages as well as disadvantages of the two dominant …

Significant progress has been made in the development of text-to-speech (TTS) models;
however, synthesizing child speech remains a challenging task. Limited research has been …

This paper describes experiments in creating personalised children's voices for HMM-based
synthesis by adapting either an adult or child average voice. The adult average voice is …

This work presents a new developmentally inspired data-driven framework to bootstrap
speech perception and imitation abilities in interaction with a tutor. The proposed system …

Abstract Hidden Markov Model (HMM)-based synthesis in combination with speaker
adaptation has proven to be an approach that is well-suited for child speech synthesis [1] …