Table of Contents

• Visual synthesisGérard Bailly. [doi]
• Unit selection synthesisYoshinori Sagisaka.
• A neural network and a hybrid approach for accent label predictionAchim F. Müller, Rüdiger Hoffmann. 102 [doi]
• A pronunciation-by-analogy module for the Festival Text-to-Speech SynthesiserRobert I. Damper, Craig Z. Stanbridge, Yannick Marchand. 103 [doi]
• Pmtools: A pronunciation modeling toolkitRichard Sproat. 104 [doi]
• A metrical model of prosody for French TTSAlex I. C. Monaghan, Fred Sannier. 105 [doi]
• Synthesizing static vowels and dynamic sounds using a 3D vocal tract modelOlov Engwall. 106 [doi]
• Close shadowing natural vs. synthetic speechGérard Bailly. 107 [doi]
• A bilingual speech design tool: Sesign2001Masanobu Abe, Osamu Mizuno, Tsubasa Shinozaki, Hideyuki Mizuno, Shin'ya Nakajima. 108 [doi]
• Input/output normalisation and linguistic analysis for a multilingual text-to-speech synthesis systemPhilippe Boula de Mareüil, Benoît Soulage. 109 [doi]
• An implementation and evaluation of two diphone-based synthesizers for TurkishBaris Bozkurt, Thierry Dutoit. 110 [doi]
• From MBROLA to NU-MBROLABaris Bozkurt, Michel Bagein, Thierry Dutoit. 111 [doi]
• The German text-to-speech synthesis system MARY: A tool for research, development, and teachingMarc Schröder, Jürgen Trouvain. 112 [doi]
• Prosodic unit selection using an imitation speech databaseJoram Meron. 113 [doi]
• A Discourse Model for Pitch-Range ControlGregor Möhler, Jörg Mayer. 114 [doi]
• A concatenative Mandarin TTS system without prosody model and prosody modificationMin Chu, Hu Peng, Eric Chang. 115 [doi]
• Prospects for articulatory synthesis: A position paperChristine H. Shadle, Robert I. Damper. 116 [doi]
• Rare events and closed domains: Two delicate concepts in speech synthesisBernd Möbius. 117 [doi]
• Definition of a training set for unit selection-based speech synthesisKarlheinz Stöber, Petra Wagner, Esther Klabbers, Wolfgang Hess. 118 [doi]
• Segmental duration control with asymmetric causal retro-causal neural networksÇaglayan Erdem, Hans-Georg Zimmermann. 119 [doi]
• A multi-lingual system for the determination of phonetic word stress using soft feature selection by neural networksHorst-Udo Hain, Hans-Georg Zimmermann. 120 [doi]
• A text-to-speech platform for variable length optimal unit searching using perceptual cost functionsMinkyu Lee, Daniel P. Lopresti, Joseph P. Olive. 122 [doi]
• A new distance measure for costing spectral discontinuities in concatenative speech synthesizersRobert E. Donovan. 123 [doi]
• Synthesis of prosodic stylesChilin Shih, Greg Kochanski. 124 [doi]
• Predicting phrase breaks with memory-based learningBertjan Busser, Walter Daelemans, Antal van den Bosch. 125 [doi]
• Predicting underlying pitch targets for intonation modelingXuejing Sun. 126 [doi]
• Prosodic phrasing: Machine and human evaluationCéu Viana, Luís C. Oliveira, Ana Isabel Mata. 127 [doi]
• Optimal data selection for unit selection synthesisAlan W. Black, Kevin A. Lenzo. 129 [doi]
• Hierarchical structure and word strength predication of Mandarin prosodyGreg Kochanski, Chilin Shih, Hongyan Jing. 130 [doi]
• Bi-directional conversion between graphemes and phonemes using a joint N-gram modelLucian Galescu, James F. Allen. 131 [doi]
• Implementing and evaluating an integrated approach to modeling German prosodyHansjörg Mixdorff, Oliver Jokisch. 132 [doi]
• Synthesis of emotional speech using prosodically balanced VCV segmentsYasuhisa Niimi, Masanori Kasamatsu, Takuya Nishinoto, Masahiro Araki. 133 [doi]
• Linking form to meaning: The expression and recognition of emotions through prosodyLi-chiung Yang. 134 [doi]
• A database design for a concatenative speech synthesis system for the disabledAkemi Iida, Nick Campbell. 135 [doi]
• Creation of speech corpora for the multilingual Bonn Open Synthesis SystemEsther Klabbers, Karlheinz Stöber. 136 [doi]
• On the role of duration prediction and symbolic representation for the evaluation of synthetic speechCaren Brinckmann, Jürgen Trouvain. 137 [doi]
• A selection/concatenation text-to-speech synthesis system: databases development, system design, comparative evaluationRomain Prudon, Christophe d'Alessandro. 138 [doi]
• Predicting segmental duration using Bayesian belief networksOlga Goubanova. 139 [doi]
• Prosody evaluation as a diagnostic process: subjective vs. objective measurementsAlbert Rilliard, Véronique Aubergé. 140 [doi]
• Linking form to meaning: The expression and recognition of emotions through prosodyLi-chiung Yang, Nick Campbell. 141 [doi]
• Automatic glottal closed-phase location and analysis by Kalman filteringJohn G. McKenna. 142 [doi]
• A brief outline of Aculab TTS: Multilingual TTS for computer telephonyAlex Monaghan. 201 [doi]
• Description of the AhoTTS system for the Basque languageInma Hernáez, Eva Navas, Juan Luis Murugarren, Borja Etxebarria. 202 [doi]
• Demo rystem for NU-MBROLA concatonatorBaris Bozkurt, Michel Bagein, Thierry Dutoit. 203 [doi]
• Flite: a small fast run-time synthesis engineAlan W. Black, Kevin A. Lenzo. 204 [doi]
• FipsVox: A French TTS based on a syntactic parserJean Philippe Goldman, Arnaud Gaudinat, Luka Nerima, Eric Wehrli. 205 [doi]
• The DEMOSTHeNES speech composerGerasimos Xydas, Georgios Kouroupetroglou. 206 [doi]
• Current status of the IBM Trainable Speech Synthesis SystemRobert E. Donovan, Abraham Ittycheriah, Martin Franz, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Ellen Eide, Mahesh Viswanathan, Raimo Bakis, Wael Hamza, Michael A. Picheny, P. Gleason, T. Rutherfoord, P. Cox, D. Green, Eric Janke, S. Revelin, Claire Waast, B. Zeller, C. Guenther, J. Kunzmann. 207 [doi]
• The UOP text-to-speech system for Greek speech synthesisPolyxeni Stathopoulou-Zois. 208 [doi]
• ACTOR: A multilingual unit-selection speech synthesis systemSilvia Quazza, Laura Donetti, Loreta Moisa, Pier Luigi Salza. 209 [doi]