Articulatory features for expressive speech synthesis

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4005-4008

  Black, Alan W ^a   Bunnell, H Timothy ^b   Dou, Ying ^c   Kumar Muthukumar, Prasanna ^a   Metze, Florian ^a   Perry, Daniel ^d   Polzehl, Tim ^e   Prahallad, Kishore ^f   Steidl, Stefan ^g   Vaughn, Callie ^h  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b NEMOURS CHILDREN S CLINIC   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^f INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^g INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h OBERLIN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

articulatory features; emotional speech; evaluation; meta data extraction; speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

ARTICULATORY FEATURES; EMOTIONAL SPEECH; EMOTIONAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS; EVALUATION; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; INTERMEDIATE REPRESENTATIONS;

SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84867602871     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2012.6288796     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (17)

1. "New Parameterization for Emotional Speech Synthesis," http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/workshops/ws11/groups/npess, 2011.
2. F. Metze, "Discriminative speaker adaptation using articulatory features," Speech Communication, vol. 49(5), 2007.
3. A. Wrench, "The MOCHA-TIMIT articulatory database," Queen Margaret University College, 1999.
4. D. Klatt, "Review of text-to-speech conversion for english," JASA, vol. 82, pp. 737-793, 1987.
5. G. Anumanchipalli, Y. Cheng, J. Fernandez, X. Hunag, Q. Mao, and A. Black, "Klattstat: Knowledge-based parametric speech synthesis," in Proc. SSW7, 2007.
6. J. Kominek and A. Black, "The CMU ARCTIC speech databases for speech synthesis research," Tech. Rep. CMULTI-03-177, CMU, Pittsburgh, PA, 2003.
7. F. Burkhardt, A. Paeschke, M. Rolfes, W. F. Sendlmeier, and B. Weiss, "A database of german emotional speech," in Proc. INTERSPEECH, Lisbon; Portugal, Sept. 2005, ISCA.
8. T. Polzehl, S. Möller, and F. Metze, "Modeling speaker personality using voice," in Proc. INTERSPEECH, Firenze; Italy, Aug. 2011, ISCA.
9. F. Eyben, M. Wöllmer, and B. Schuller, "Opensmile: the Munich versatile and fast open-source audio feature extractor," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia, New York, NY; USA, 2010, MM '10, pp. 1459-1462, ACM.
10. M. Ostendorf, "Moving beyond the 'beads-on-a-string' model of speech," in Proc. ASRU, 1999.
11. H. Soltau, F. Metze, and A. Waibel, "Compensating for hyperarticulation by modeling articulatory properties," in Proc. ICSLP, 2002.
12. F. Metze and A. Waibel, "Using articulatory features for speaker adaptation," in Proc. ASRU, 2003.
13. K. Livescu, M. Cetin, O. Hasegawa-Johnson, S. King, C. Bartels, N. Borges, A. Kantor, P. Lal, L. Yung, A. Bezman, S. Dawson-Haggerty, B.Woods, J. Frankel, M. Magimai-Doss, and K. Saenko, "Articulatory feature-based methods acoustic and audio-visual speech recognition," in Proc. ICASSP, 2007.
14. A. Black, "CLUSTERGEN: A statistical parametric synthesizer using trajectory modeling," in Proc. INTERSPEECH, 2006.
15. J. Kominek, T. Schultz, and A. Black, "Synthesizer voice quality on new languages calibrated with mel-cepstral distortion," in Proc. SLTU, 2008.
16. A. Black and J. Kominek, "Optimizing segment label boundaries for statistical speech synthesis," in Proc. ICASSP, 2009.
17. I. H. Witten, E. Frank, L. Trigg, M. Hall, G. Holmes, , and S. J. Cunningham, "Weka: Practical machine learning tools and techniques with java implementations," in Proc. ICONIP/ANZIIS/ANNES'99 Workshop on Emerging Knowledge Engineering and Connectionist-Based Information Systems, 1999, pp. 192-196.