We present an extension to the Tacotron speech synthesis architecture that learns a latent
embedding space of prosody, derived from a reference acoustic representation containing …

Social robots have the potential to provide support in a number of practical domains, such as
learning and behaviour change. This potential is particularly relevant for children, who have …

Although speech prosody is related to the linguistic information up to the discourse structure,
most text-to-speech (TTS) systems only take into account the information within each …

Prosodic prominence is an umbrella term encompassing various related but conceptually
and functionally different phenomena such as phonological stress, paralinguistic emphasis …

End-to-end TTS model can directly take an utterance as reference, and generate speech
from the text with prosody and speaker characteristics similar to the reference utterance …

This work aims to improve text-to-speech synthesis for Wikipedia by advancing and
implementing models of prosodic prominence. We propose a new system architecture with …

The construction of a natural interactive human-computer interaction has become an integral
component of intelligent system development, constituting a core subject within the field of …

It is often so hard to pinpoint the genesis of a book. Ideas and concepts are naturally fluent;
they float around in our mind until one day these many feathers of thoughts settle and come …

Statistical parametric speech synthesis (SPSS) has seen improvements over recent years,
especially in terms of intelligibility. Synthetic speech is often clear and understandable, but it …

Artificial companion agents are becoming increasingly important in the field of healthcare,
particularly when children are involved, with the aim of providing novel educational tools …