This work presents an approach to emotion recognition of affective speech based on
multiple classifiers using acoustic-prosodic information (AP) and semantic labels (SLs). For …

Abstract Systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products are described for
producing text-to-speech synthesis with non-speech sounds. In general, some of the pauses …

Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer program products are provided for synthesizing
speech. One method includes matching a first level of units of a received input string to …

This paper presents an expressive voice conversion model (DeBi-HMM) as the post
processing of a text-to-speech (TTS) system for expressive speech synthesis. DeBi-HMM is …

The more comprehensive information supply for Vessel Traffic Service (VTS), the greater
capacity for maritime traffic surveillance. To supply ship intention information contained in …

This paper proposes a method for modeling and generating pitch in hidden Markov model
(HMM)-based Mandarin speech synthesis by exploiting prosody hierarchy and dynamic …

This investigation describes a novel design and implementation of an interactive multimedia
mirror system, called" magic mirror". The magic mirror implemented in a personal computer …

Unit-selection speech synthesis is one of the current corpus-based text-to-speech synthesis
techniques. The quality of the generated speech depends on the accuracy of the unit …

Modeling interrogative sentence prosody is a challenging task due to the significant
variation of questions. Prosody is produced by intonation, intensity and duration features …

In emotional speech synthesis, a large speech database is required for high-quality speech
output. Voice conversion needs only a compact-sized speech database for each emotion …