We present a language to specify syntax guided synthesis (SyGuS) problems. Syntax guidance is a prominent theme in contemporary program synthesis approaches, and SyGuS was first described in [1]. This paper describes concretely the input format of a SyGuS solver.

This paper describes our on-going work in the area of text-tospeech synthesis, specifically on concatenative techniques. Our preliminary work consisted in investigating the current trends in concatenative synthesis and the problems that could arise when we apply the existing state-of-the art solutions to the specific case of European Portuguese. Our ultimate goal is to develop a text-to-speech ...

Regions of nonmodal phonation, exhibiting deviations from uniform glottal-pulse periods and amplitudes, occur often and convey information about speakerand linguistic-dependent factors. Such waveforms pose challenges for speech modeling, analysis/synthesis, and processing. In this paper, we investigate the representation of nonmodal pulse trains as a sum of harmonically-related sinewaves with t...

This paper focuses on generation of expressive speech, specifically speech displaying vocal affect. Generating speech with vocal affect is important for diagnosis, research, and remediation for children with autism and developmental language disorders. However, because vocal affect involves many acoustic factors working together in complex ways, it is unlikely that we will be able to generate c...

Like many current TTS systems the AT&T German text -tospeech system is based on the methods of unit selection and concatenative synthesis [1]. This paper highlights efforts to improve TTS quality by closely matching the speakers' original productions with linguistic descriptions. On the segmental level this is achieved by adjusting the speakers' individual productions to an established, general...

The development of the Greek Text-To-Speech (TTS) system by NTUA is based on the method of concatenative synthesis and follows the Bell Labs approach to this technique. Concatenative synthesis is one of the simplest methods for speech synthesis and at the same time bypasses most of the problems encountered by articulatory and formant synthesis techniques. The method relies on designing and crea...