An empirical text tranformation method for spontaneous speech synthesizers

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1221-1224

  Sundaram, Shiva ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS; FILLERS; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TEXT PROCESSING; USER INTERFACES;

DISCOURSE MARKERS; EMPIRICAL TECHNIQUES; LANGUAGE GENERATION; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; SPEECH USER INTERFACES; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH; SYNTHESIZED SPEECH;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 78649292166     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (6)

1. Shiva Sundaram, Shrikanth Narayanan "Experiments in the synthesis of spontaneous monologues". IEEE 2002 workshop in Text to Speech Synthesis, Santa Monica CA.
2. H.H Clark, Jean Foxtree "Using Uh Um in spontaneous speaking" Cognition 2002.
3. F.Goldman Eisler, "Psycholinguistics: Experiments in spontaneous speech", Academic Press Inc. (London) Ltd. 1968.
4. CMU-Cambridge Language Modeling ToolKit http://svr-www.eng.cam.ac.uk/~prc14/toolkit.html
5. AT&T Finite State Machine ToolKit 3.7 http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/fsm/
6. POS tagger, LTG, Edinburgh University. http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~mikheev/software.html