Sleep is a vital need, forcing us to spend a large portion of our life unable to interact with the
external world. Current models interpret such extreme vulnerability as the price to pay for …

Voice interfaces are becoming wildly popular and driving demand for more advanced
speech synthesis and voice transformation systems. Current text-to-speech methods …

Modeling virtual agents with behavior style is one factor for personalizing human-agent
interaction. We propose an efficient yet effective machine learning approach to synthesize …

Sleep leads to a disconnection from the external world. Even when sleepers regain
consciousness during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, little, if any, external information is …

In the context of singing voice synthesis, expression control manipulates a set of voice
features related to a particular emotion, style, or singer. Also known as performance …

This paper presents Att-HACK, the first large database of acted speech with social attitudes.
Available databases of expressive speech are rare and very often restricted to the primary …

This paper presents a large-scale similarity search of professionally acted voices for
computer-aided voice casting. The proposed voice casting system explores Gaussian …

This paper presents SLAM: a simple method for the automatic Stylization and LAbelling of
speech Melody. This main contributions over existing methods are: the alphabet of melodic …

This thesis aimed at conducting research on the synthesis and expressive transformations of
the singing voice, towards the development of a high-quality synthesizer that can generate a …

This paper introduces novel paradigms for the segmentation of speech into syllables. The
main idea of the proposed method is based on the use of a time-frequency representation of …