Speech conveys not only linguistic information but also supplemental information that is not
inferable from written language, such as attitude, speaking style, intention, emotion, mental …

In speech interaction scenarios, speech emphasis is essential for expressing the underlying
intention and attitude. Recently, end-to-end emphatic speech synthesis greatly improves the …

Bidirectional long short-term memory (BLSTM) recurrent neural network (RNN) has
achieved state-of-the-art performance in many sequence processing problems given its …

By highlighting the focus of an utterance to draw attention, emphasis in speech interaction
plays an important role for speaker intention expressing and understanding. Therefore …

Emphasis plays an important role in expressive speech synthesis in highlighting the focus of
an utterance to draw the attention of the listener. We present a hidden Markov model (HMM) …

This paper proposes an unsupervised labeling technique using phrase-level prosodic
contexts for HMM-based expressive speech synthesis, which enables users to manually …

Emphasis plays an important role in expressive speech synthesis in highlighting the focus of
an utterance to draw the attention of the listener. As there are only a few emphasized words …

This paper describes an approach to HMM-based Thai speech synthesis using stress
context. It has been shown that context related to stressed/unstressed syllable information …

This paper proposes a new framework for emphasis detection from natural speech, where
emphasis refers to a word or part of a word perceived as standing out from its surrounding …

This paper proposes an average voice model training technique based on a speaker
clustering approach to generate synthetic speech with enhanced similarity to the target …