Breathing and speech planning in spontaneous speech are coordinated processes, often
exhibiting disfluent patterns. While synthetic speech is not subject to respiratory needs …

The prominence of a spoken word is the degree to which an average native listener
perceives the word as salient or emphasized relative to its context. Speech prominence …

Avatars communicate through speech and gestures to appear realistic and to enhance
interaction with humans. In this context, several works have analyzed the relationship …

This paper presents a prosodic analysis of a corpus of 12 tales, read by one male speaker.
The work is part of a project which aims at providing storytelling capacities to a humanoid …

This paper focuses on the analysis and synthesis of hypo and hyperarticulated speech in the
framework of HMM-based speech synthesis. First of all, a new French database matching …

Hypo and hyperarticulation refer to the production of speech with respectively a reduction
and an increase of the articulatory efforts compared to the neutral style. Produced …

During the last decades, the majority of works devoted on expressive speech acoustic
analysis have focused on emotions, although there is a growing interest in other speaking …

This paper presents a novel methodology to characterize the style of different speakers or
groups of speakers. This methodology uses sequences of prosodic labels (automatic …

Advances in voice recognition have made possible applications in robotics controlled by
voice only. However, user input through gestures and robot output gestures both create a …

While current research in speech synthesis focuses on the generation of various speaking
styles or emotions, very few studies have addressed the possibility of including phonetic …