This article explores the potential of the harmonics plus noise model of speech in the
development of a high-quality vocoder applicable in statistical frameworks, particularly in …

Statistical parametric synthesizers have achieved very good performance scores during the
last years. Nevertheless, as they require the use of vocoders to parameterize speech (during …

This paper introduces new open speech datasets for three of the languages of Spain:
Basque, Catalan and Galician. Catalan is furthermore the official language of the Principality …

In this paper, we describe the implementation and evaluation of Text to Speech synthesizers
based on neural networks for Spanish and Basque. Several voices were built, all of them …

Pathological speech such as Oesophageal Speech (OS) is difficult to understand due to the
presence of undesired artefacts and lack of normal healthy speech characteristics. Modern …

Recent developments in speech synthesis have produced systems capable of producing
speech which closely resembles natural speech, and researchers now strive to create …

This paper presents three new speech databases for standard Basque. They are designed
primarily for corpus-based synthesis but each database has its specific purpose: 1) AhoSyn …

Currently, the statistical framework based on Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) plays a
relevant role in speech synthesis, while voice conversion systems based on Gaussian …

The primary goal of the ZureTTS project was the design and development of a web interface
that allows nonexpert users to get their own personalized synthetic voice with minimal effort …

This paper describes the two Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems presented by Aholab-EHU/UPV
in the Albayzin2010 evaluation campaign. The first system is a statistical parametric TTS …