Speech technology in the form of automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech synthesis
(text-to-speech or TTS) has become common in everyday use. Applications such as in-car …

We describe models of Mandarin prosody that allow us to make quantitative measurements
of prosodic strengths. These models use Stem-ML, which is a phenomenological model of …

While the tonal characteristics of Chinese syllables have been qualitatively described in
traditional phonetics, quantitative analysis requires a mathematical model. This paper …

We describe the phenomenon of schwa-deletion in Hindi and how it is handled in the
pronunciation component of a multilingual concatenative text-to-speech system. Each of the …

This paper presents a set of corpus-based text-to-speech synthesis technologies for
Mandarin Chinese. A large speech corpus produced by a single speaker is used, and the …

This paper models tonal variations with Stem-ML tags. Surface tone shapes often deviate
from their expected canonical shapes in natural sentences, presenting a challenging case to …

In this paper, some approaches to the generation of synthesis units and prosodic information
are proposed for Mandarin Chinese text-to-speech (TTS) conversion. The monosyllables are …

The alveolar-retroflex contrast is a critical feature in Mandarin and is often used to
differentiate Bei**g Mandarin from other dialects of Mandarin like Taiwan Mandarin. While a …

Differences in rhythm between languages have been often attributed to differences in
phonological properties such as syllable structure. This paper uses quantitative analyses to …

In this paper, a new technique for the Chinese text-to-speech (TTS) system is proposed. Our
major effort focuses on the prosodic information generation. New methodologies for …