And-Prefaced Utterances: From Speech to Text

Predicting Prosody from Text for Text-to-Speech Synthesis

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From Audio-Only to Audio and Video Text-to-Speech

Assessing the quality of Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems is a complex problem due to the many modules involved that address different subtasks during synthesis. Adding face synthesis – the animation of a “talking head” and its rendering to video – to a TTS system makes evaluation even more difficult. In the case of talking heads, today, we are at the infancy of research towards evaluating such sys...

The rhythm of text and the rhythm of utterances: from metrics to models

The typological classification of languages as stress-timed, syllable-timed and mora-timed did not stand up to empirical investigation which found little or no evidence for the different types of isochrony which had been assumed to be the basis for the classification. In recent years, there has been a renewal of interest with the development of empirical metrics for measuring rhythm. In this pa...

Latin Text to Speech

In this paper we will describe our work on the creation of a Text-To-Speech (TTS) system for classical Latin. This system is suitable for any use, be it for accessibility or educational purposes, however we specifically conformed to the orthography used in the Amsterdam University Press online Latin-Dutch dictionary [2], such that it can be used as an extension of the dictionary in future. Much...

Text-to-Speech Synthesis