Automatic synchronization of electronic and audio books via TTS alignment and silence filtering

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Anguera, Xavier ^a   Perez, Nestor ^a   Urruela, Andreu ^a   Oliver, Nuria ^a  

^a TELEFONICA RESEARCH   (Spain)

Author keywords

audio processing; audiobook; e book; multimodal synchronization; TTS alignment

Indexed keywords

AUDIO PROCESSING; AUDIOBOOK; E-BOOK; MULTI-MODAL; TTS ALIGNMENT;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SYNCHRONIZATION; USER INTERFACES;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 80155146584     PISSN: 19457871     EISSN: 1945788X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICME.2011.6012185     Document Type: Conference Paper

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