This paper presents a parametric matching and smoothing method that is applied to a sinusoidal representation and auditory model-based speech analysis/synthesis system. A 2.6kbps speechcoding algorithm is finally derived based on the speech analysis/synthesis system. The synthetic speech is almost same as that of 3.25kbps speech coding algorithm with overlapping and adding method. A linear inte...

In recent years, IP telephone service has spread rapidly. However, an unavoidable problem of IP telephone service is deterioration of speech due to packet loss, which often occurs on wireless networks. To overcome this problem, we propose a novel lost speech reconstruction method using speech recognition based on Missing Feature Theory and HMM-based speech synthesis. The proposed method uses li...

While the synthesis of natural sounding, neutral style speech can be achieved using today’s technology, fast adaptation of speech synthesis to different contexts and situations still poses a challenge. In the context of variety modeling (dialects, sociolects) we have to cope with the problem that no standardized orthographic form is available and that existing speech resources for these varieti...

Hidden Markov model (HMM)-based parametric speech synthesis has become a mainstream speech synthesis method in recent years. This method is able to synthesise highly intelligible and smooth speech sounds. In addition, it makes speech synthesis far more flexible compared to the conventional unit selection and waveform concatenation approach. Several adaptation and interpolation methods have been...

An important problem in speech coding framework is model parameters estimation. In most cases parametric speech coding methods do not preserve shape of speech waveform. This fact implies straightforward parameters estimation and analysisby-synthesis method is hardly used. A novel analysis-by-synthesis parameters estimation method in speech coders based on harmonic models presented. We introduce...

We describe the attempt to synthesize emotional speech with a concatenative speech synthesizer using a parameter space covering not only f0, duration and amplitude, but also voice quality parameters, spectral energy distribution, harmonics-to-noise ratio, and articulatory precision. The application of these extended parameter set offers the possibility to combine the high segmental quality of c...

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.

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 report describes a novel approach to segmental re-synthesis of child speech, by concatenation of speech from different speakers. The re-synthesis builds upon standard methods of unit selection, but instead of using speech from only one speaker, target segments are selected from a speech database of many child speakers. Results from a listener evaluation suggest that the method can be used ...

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 ...