Prosodic phrasing is an important factor that affects naturalness and intelligibility in text-to-
speech synthesis. Studies show that deep learning techniques improve prosodic phrasing …

The prediction of symbolic prosodic categories from text is an important, but challenging,
natural-language processing task given the various ways in which an input can be realized …

In the speech synthesis systems, the phrase break (PB) prediction is the first and most
important step. Recently, the state-of-the-art PB prediction systems mainly rely on word …

Hierarchical prosody structure generation is an important but challenging component for
speech synthesis systems. In this paper, we investigate the use of enhanced embedding …

This paper presents our investigations of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) for the phrase
break prediction task. With the advent of deep learning, there have been attempts to apply …

In storytelling style, a storyteller generally uses prosodic variations with subtle speech
nuances for the better apprehension of the listeners. It is achieved by emphasizing …

In this paper, we first utilize the word embedding that focuses on sub-word units to the
Mongolian Phrase Break (PB) prediction task by using Long-Short-Term-Memory (LSTM) …

This paper presents our work on phrase break prediction in the context of end-to-end TTS
systems, motivated by the following questions:(i) Is there any utility in incorporating an …

This work explores the use of external phrase break prediction models to enhance listener
comprehension in end-to-end text-to-speech (TTS) systems. The effectiveness of these …

In the storytelling style speech pauses or phrase breaks play a significant role in introducing
suspense and climax in the story. More often pauses are provided by a storyteller to capture …