This paper aims to enhance the performance of a TTS system by generating various speaking styles. First we describe three speaking styles (Radio News, Political Address and Conversation) and compare the prosodic features found in these authentic styles with the prosody in “neutral” speech uttered by the eLite TTS system ([1]). Differences concern about 20 prosodic characteristics (F0 span, spee...

In this paper, we propose HMM-based text-to-speech (TTS) using sub-band basis spectrum model (SBM). SBM can represent vocal tract spectra and phase characteristics by a linear combination of sub-band basis vectors. Some reports suggest that analysis-synthesized speech based on SBM is close to natural speech and SBM can perform effectively in TTS. Therefore, the SBM framework is expected to have...

A text to speech (TTS) synthesizer is a computer based system that should be able to read any text aloud. The TTS systems are commercially available in English, and in some of the Indian languages like Hindi, Tamil, and Urdu etc. Till now, the text to speech system had not been developed for Konkani language. This is the first TTS system developed for the Konkani ( Goan ) language. Concatenatio...

Trigeminal trophic syndrome (TTS) is an uncommon medical condition that may be encountered by otolaryngologists and facial plastic surgeons. TTS begins with damage to the trigeminal nerve or its central sensory connections, causing anesthesia in a dermatomal distribution. With repeated scratching and manipulation, an ulceration occurs, often in the alar region. In this multi-institutional repor...

A two-microelectrode voltage clamp and optical measurements of membrane potential changes at the transverse tubular system (TTS) were used to characterize delayed rectifier K currents (IK(V)) in murine muscle fibers stained with the potentiometric dye di-8-ANEPPS. In intact fibers, IK(V) displays the canonical hallmarks of K(V) channels: voltage-dependent delayed activation and decay in time. T...

Background The aim was to study the association between mood and anxiety disorders and the Tako-Tsubo Syndrome (TTS) and to determine the role of antidepressants and the impairment of quality of life due the comorbid psychiatric disorder. Methods Case-control study: 19 consecutive patients (17 female) with TTS compared to 76 controls without TTS, were randomly selected from the database of a ...

In this paper a low footprint multilingual text-to-speech (MLTTS) framework is presented. The system is a part of a speaker independent name dialing system that has been introduced in Nokia Series 60 mobile phones. In the ML-TTS systems that are based on the Klatt88 engine there usually exist sets of language specific rules that are used to modify the speech synthesis parameters. Usually, the s...

Abstract This article proposes a methodology to identify technological transitions (TTs) by systematically using the total variation distance (TVD) metric. We use database of renewable energy generation (REG) patents exemplify usefulness TVD uncover moments where “big change” in REG technology happened. To do this, we compare observed frequency distribution codes filed between 1973 and 2015 US,...

Electronic texts carry important meta-information (such as tags in HTML) that most of the current Text-to-Speech (TtS) systems ignore during the production of the speech. We propose an approach to exploit this meta-information in order to achieve a detailed auditory representation of an e-text. The e-Text to Speech and Audio (e-TSA) Composer has been designed and developed as an XML based scrip...

This paper presents an Hidden Markov Model (HMM)-based variable speech rate Mandarin Chinese text-to-speech (TTS) system. In this system, parameters of spectrum, fundametal frequency and state duration are generated by a context dependent HMM (CDHMM) whose model parameters are linear-interpolated from those of three CDHMMs trained by corpora in three different speech rates (SRs), i.e. fast, med...