Speech synthesized systems

This paper describes our speech synthesis system participating in the Vietnamese TextTo-Speech track of the 2021 VLSP evaluation campaign. The goal of this challenge is to build a synthetic voice from a provided spontaneous speech corpus in Vietnamese.

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In this paper, attempts are made to analyze the use of rhetorical devices in Hillary Clinton’s speeches. The analytical framework of the study is adapted from So (2005) which synthesizes Tribble’s (2002) framework with the SFL’s notion of metafunction of language.

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cannot be correctly produced by the text to speech system. To alleviate some of these problems, we modified Direction Assistance to make both attentional and intentional information about the route description available for the assignment of intonational features. With this information, we generate spoken directions using the Bell Labo~ ratories Text-to-Speech System[21] in which pitch range, accent placement, phrasing, and tune can be varied to communicate attentional and intentional structure. ...

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A system for converting English text into synthetic speech can be divided into two processes that operate in series: I) a text-to-phoneme converter, and 2) a phonemic-input speech synthesizer. The conversion of orthographic text into a phonemic form may itself comprise several processes i n series, for instance, formatting t e x t t o expand a b b r e v i a t i o n s and n o n - a l p h a b e t i c e x p r e s s i o n s , p a r...

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The paper describes an interface between generator and synthesizer of the German language concept-to-speech system VieCtoS. It discusses phenomena in German intonation that depend on the interaction between grammatical dependencies (projection of information structure into syntax) and prosodic context (performancerelated modifications to intonation patterns). Phonological processing in our system comprises segmental as well as suprasegmental dimensions such as syllabification, modification of word stress positions, and a symbolic encoding of intonation. ...

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Traditional concatenative speech synthesis systems use a number of heuristics to define the target and concatenation costs, essential for the design of the unit selection component. In contrast to these approaches, we introduce a general statistical modeling framework for unit selection inspired by automatic speech recognition. Given appropriate data, techniques based on that framework can result in a more accurate unit selection, thereby improving the general quality of a speech synthesizer. They can also lead to a more modular and a substantially more efficient system. ...

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This paper presents a method for adapting a language generator to the strengths and weaknesses of a synthetic voice, thereby improving the naturalness of synthetic speech in a spoken language dialogue system. The method trains a discriminative reranker to select paraphrases that are predicted to sound natural when synthesized. The ranker is trained on realizer and synthesizer features in supervised fashion, using human judgements of synthetic voice quality on a sample of the paraphrases representative of the generator’s capability. ...

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