[PDF][PDF] The SIWIS database: a multilingual speech database with acted emphasis

JP Goldman, PE Honnet, R Clark, PN Garner… - Interspeech …, 2016‏ - infoscience.epfl.ch
We describe here a collection of speech data of bilingual and trilingual speakers of English,
French, German and Italian. In the context of speech to speech translation (S2ST), this …

[PDF][PDF] Do speakers show different F0 when they speak in different languages? The case of English, French and German?

S Schwab, JP Goldman - 2016‏ - zora.uzh.ch
Based on the facts that the voice quality that allows the recognition of a speaker is
characterized, among other features, by his/her fundamental frequency (F0) and that F0 may …

[PDF][PDF] An empirical model of emphatic word detection

M Cernak, PE Honnet - 2015‏ - infoscience.epfl.ch
The paper presents an empirical model of emphatic word detection, as an alternative to
conventional machine-learning-based methods. The model is based on the Probabilistic …

[PDF][PDF] Sound pattern matching for automatic prosodic event detection

M Cernak, A Asaei, PE Honnet, PN Garner… - Interspeech …, 2016‏ - infoscience.epfl.ch
Prosody in speech is manifested by variations of loudness, exaggeration of pitch, and
specific phonetic variations of prosodic segments. For example, in the stressed and …

[PDF][PDF] Les langues des signes, des langues incarnées

M Blondel - 2020‏ - shs.hal.science
Comme pour d'autres langues peu décrites et peu dotées en outils et ressources, les
langues des signes peuvent constituer un domaine de recherche (au sein de la discipline …

Prosody Utilization in Continuous Speech Recognition

J Bartošek - 2016‏ - search.proquest.com
This doctoral thesis covers the theme of prosody utilization in automatic recognition of
continuous speech. Even though automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have …

[PDF][PDF] Intonation atom based emphasis transfer

PE Honnet, PN Garner - 2016‏ - infoscience.epfl.ch
Speech to speech translation can benefit from translation of emphasis. We propose to use
an intonation model to retrieve and transfer events associated with emphasis in the …

[PDF][PDF] Detecting Emphasised Spoken Words by Considering Them Prosodic Outliers and Taking Advantage of HMM-Based TTS Framework

梁晖‏ - isca-archive.org
A fresh approach to detecting emphasised spoken words, where the concept of one-class
classification is adopted, is investigated in this research work, such that a major difficulty …

[PDF][PDF] Multiword Expressions in Machine Translation: The Case of German Compounds

M Ivanova, E Wehrli, L Nerima - MULTI-WORD UNITS IN …, 2015‏ - researchgate.net
This paper presents an on-going research on compound generation for the German
language, to be integrated into a speechto-speech machine translation system with English …

[PDF][PDF] Investigation into Transferability of Duration of Emphasised Words from Original Expression to Spoken Translation

梁晖‏ - tik-old.ee.ethz.ch
To achieve an expressive, personalised speech-to-speech translator, paralinguistic
information need be transferred from input natural speech into output synthesised speech, in …