The absence of convincing intonation makes current parametric speech synthesis systems
sound dull and lifeless, even when trained on expressive speech data. Typically, these …

This paper presents a sparse coding algorithm based on deep auto-encoders for the
stylization and the clustering of pitch contours. The main objective of the proposed algorithm …

The absence of convincing intonation makes current parametric speech synthesis systems
sound dull and lifeless, even when trained on expressive speech data. Typically, these …

This paper addresses the issue of local disturbances in the fundamental frequency contour
of speech, caused by the articulation of voiced/unvoiced consonant phonemes. Depending …

This paper presents the newest version of the annotation software Stylization and Labelling
of Speech Melody (SLAM), a language-independent prosodic model that automatically …

In this paper an automatic method to implicitly model intonation for statistical parametric
speech synthesis (SPSS) is presented. The approach is ideally suited to single speaker …

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 …