This paper describes the Bell Labs Russian text-to-speech system, a concatenative system with extensive text-analysis capabilities. The construction of Russian-specific modules will be discussed, including the text-analysis module, the acoustic inventory, the duration module, and the intonation module.

It was previously observed [1] that the order of presentation of paired stimuli influenced the number of different responses in same-different tasks in speech synthesis evaluation. This paper investigates this phenomenon within the context of cognitive psychology and demonstrates that, as the cognitive psychology literature suggests, there is an effect relating to the prototypicality of the sti...

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a series of 2-amino-4-aryl-3-cyano-7-(dimethylamino)-4 h -chromenes was synthesized by condensation of 3-(dimethylamino)phenol, an aromatic aldehyde and malonitrile in ethanol containing piperidine. the assignments of the structure of all synthesized compounds were based on spectral data (ir, mass and 1 h nmr). the cytotoxic activities of the synthesized compounds against six human tumor cell l...

titanium dioxide is one kind of important materials, which has been extensively investigated because of its unique electronic and optical properties. a large number of efforts have been made to synthesize tio2 materials with different methods. in this review paper, we summarize the synthesis pathways, morphology, as well as crystallization of the nanostructured tio2. in addition, we also mentio...

In this paper, we study the notion of admissibility for randomised strategies in concurrent games. Intuitively, an admissible strategy is one where the player plays ‘as well as possible’, because there is no other strategy that dominates it, i.e., that wins (almost surely) against a super set of adversarial strategies. We prove that admissible strategies always exist in concurrent games, and we...

This paper gives an overview about the state of the development of various perception-based quality models. The overview addresses dimension-based modeling and models which specifically focus on quality evaluation in the presence of background noise and modeling echo impairments. Finally the quality evaluation of Text-ToSpeech (TTS) systems is discussed.

In this paper work, past, present and future, in articulatory synthesis applied to Portuguese is presented 1 .