Disfluent speech synthesis is necessary in some applications such as automatic film dubbing or spoken translation. This paper presents a model for the generation of synthetic disfluent speech based on inserting each element of a disfluency in a context where they can be considered fluent. Prosody obtained by the application of standard techniques on these new sentences is used for the synthesis...

The voice modification system studied in this paper allows to ’transplant’ selected voice characteristics (pitch, loudness, timing, and/or timbre) from a given ’donor’ utterance onto another (’patient’) utterance. Several potential applications exist for such a system, depending on the voice characteristics that are transplanted. The examples studied here are lip synchronization, voice dubbing ...

This paper describes an emotional speech database recorded for standard Basque. This database was recorded in the framework of a project in which the goal was to develop an avatar. therefore, the image corresponding to the expression of the different emotions was also needed. This is why an audiovisual database was developed. The designed database contains six basic emotions as well as the neut...

Despite the central place occupied by language transfer of audiovisual products, particularly in the European cinema and television sector, audience perception of both dubbing and subtitling is a largely neglected field of study and research. When, however, we start looking into the available research on the perception of translated humor and, more specifically, of the perception of humor as re...

We suggest a test for discovering whether a potential expert is informed of the distribution of a stochastic process. In a non-Bayesian non-parametric setting, the expert is asked to make a prediction which is tested against a single realization of the stochastic process. It is shown that by testing the expert with a “small” set of sequences, the test will assure that any informed expert can pa...

Abstract Contemporary sustainability issues require the integration of diverse knowledge to study and address them holistically. How interdisciplinary arises in teamwork is, however, poorly understood. For instance, studies often focus on either individual or team processes, rather than studying their interplay thereby contributing understanding an integral manner. Therefore, this we aimed unde...