A computer terminal with synthetic speech output

"pseudo-natural" Human-computer Dialog, Using a Speech Terminal

Video-realistic synthetic speech with a parametric visual speech synthesizer

The author presents a new face module for MASSY, the Modular Audiovisual Speech SYnthesizer [1]. Within this face module the system combines two approaches of visual speech synthesis. Although the articulation space is parameterized in terms of movements of the articulators, the visual synthesis is image based (video-realistic). The high-level visual speech synthesis generates a sequence of con...

Experiences with the use of computer programs with speech output in teaching reading and writing

Feedback from a synthesizer when typing a text has been found useful for children with reading and writing problems. Increased motivation and improvement in spelling skills were observed. A recent project has shown further potentials of this new approach. Children can experiment wi th speech sounds and practice identifying phonemes, discriminating between short and long vowels, rhyming, discove...

Affective speech elicited with a computer game.

To determine the degree to which emotional changes in speech reflect factors other than arousal, such as valence, the authors used a computer game to induce natural emotional speech. Voice samples were elicited following game events that were either conducive or obstructive to the goal of winning and were accompanied by either pleasant or unpleasant sounds. Acoustic analysis of the speech recor...

Calibration of computer models with multivariate output

• y(u) aims at reproducing some real phenomenon which we denote by y 1.2 Validation of computer models •Question of interest: Does the computer model adequately represent reality? •Obtain field data yi that results from observing reality in a physical experiment yFi = y +εi , εi ∼ Np(0,Σ F ), ,Σ = Λ R Λ, Λ = diag(σ i ) •Combine model and field data with a statistical model y = y(u) + b (Kennedy...