The Java Audio Music-suite (J.A.M. for short) is a suite of applications that provides tools and audio processing utilities for musicians. It’s core functionality includes a means whereby musicians who are geographically dispersed can play music together. An additional utility determines the actual musical notes from a piece of music using Fourier Transform techniques. All of these functions ar...

This paper evaluates a direct speech translation Method with waveforms using the Inductive Learning method for short conversation. The method is able to work without conventional speech recognition and speech synthesis because syntactic expressions are not needed for translation in the proposed method. We focus only on acoustic characteristics of speech waveforms of source and target languages ...

It is generally known that a well-designed excitation produces high quality signals in hidden Markov model (HMM)-based speech synthesis systems. This paper proposes a novel techniques for generating excitation based on the waveform interpolation (WI). For modeling WI parameters, we implemented statistical method like principal component analysis (PCA). The parameters of the proposed excitation ...

We propose a variety of Hollywood’s film screenings as a productive tool for phonetic and prosodic research through analysis-by-synthesis. An initial study where the method is used to allow a potential target audience, rather than trained experts, to point out oddities in an extended stretch of connected synthesised speech is presented as proofof-concept.

Robustness and reliability is the essence of speech communication. The senses collaborate with memory and other brain mechanisms to decode spoken language in the harsh and often unpredictable environments of the real world. How the brain makes speech “stick” is the focus of this special session, which examines how the senses and motor system coordinate during speech perception and production.

Speech is the most natural and effective medium of communication among the human beings. Speech has played a great role in the evolution of human civilization. Speech synthesis is an artificial way of producing speech. The native speakers of any language use their knowledge base of various prosodic features during the speech production. These features they acquire unconsciously in childhood. Wi...

This paper evaluates a direct speech translation Method with waveforms using the Inductive Learning method for short conversation. The method is able to work without conventional speech recognition and speech synthesis because syntactic expressions are not needed for translation in the proposed method. We focus only on acoustic characteristics of speech waveforms of source and target languages ...

The conventional statistical parametric speech synthesis (SPSS) focus on characteristics of the magnitude spectrum of speech for speech synthesis by ignoring phase characteristics of speech. In this work, the role of phase information to improve the naturalness of synthetic speech is explored. The phase characteristics of excitation signal are estimated from the integrated linear prediction res...

After the years of hesitation the conservative Slovak telecommunication market seems to become conscious of the need of voice driven services. In the last year, all the three telecommunication operators have adopted our text to speech system Kempelen in their interactive voice response systems. The diphone concatenative synthesis has probably reached the frontier of its abilities and so the nex...

This paper proposes a method of sentence-style conversion for generating spontaneous Japanese speech in a text-to-speech synthesis system. Since written language is different from spoken language linguistically, the speech by direct reading of written Japanese texts might be unnatural. The method takes a fully rulebased approach to convert the sentence style and to complement sentences, which a...