Table of Contents

• Perspectives for articulatory speech synthesisBernd J. Kröger. [doi]
• The Blizzard Challenge: evaluating corpus-based speech synthesis techniquesAlan W. Black. [doi]
• Learning optimal audiovisual phasing for an HMM-based control model for facial animationOxana Govokhina, Gérard Bailly, Gaspard Breton. 1-4 [doi]
• Control concepts for articulatory speech synthesisPeter Birkholz, Ingmar Steiner, Stefan Breuer. 5-10 [doi]
• Spectral control in concatenative speech synthesisAlexander Kain, Qi Miao, Jan P. H. van Santen. 11-16 [doi]
• Feature transformation applied to the detection of discontinuities in concatenated speechBarry Kirkpatrick, Darragh O'Brien, Ronan Scaife. 17-21 [doi]
• Towards conversational speech synthesis; lessons learned from the expressive speech processing projectNick Campbell. 22-27 [doi]
• Communicative speech synthesis with XIMERA: a first stepShinsuke Sakai, Jinfu Ni, Ranniery Maia, Keiichi Tokuda, Minoru Tsuzaki, Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura. 28-33 [doi]
• Automatic exploration of corpus-specific properties for expressive text-to-speech: a case study in emphasisRaul Fernandez, Bhuvana Ramabhadran. 34-39 [doi]
• Modeling and perceiving of (un-)certainty in articulatory speech synthesisCharlotte Wollermann, Eva Lasarcyk. 40-45 [doi]
• Perceptual annotation of expressive speechLijuan Wang, Min Chu, Yaya Peng, Yong Zhao, Frank K. Soong. 46-51 [doi]
• Joint analysis of speech frames for synthesis based on lossy tube modelsKarl Schnell, Arild Lacroix. 52-57 [doi]
• Are rule-based syllabification methods adequate for languages with low syllabic complexity? the case of ItalianConnie R. Adsett, Yannick Marchand. 58-63 [doi]
• Spoken language conversion with accent morphingMark Huckvale, Kayoko Yanagisawa. 64-70 [doi]
• Comparative investigation of peak alignment in Polish and German unit selection corporaGrazyna Demenko, Agnieszka Wagner, Matthias Jilka, Bernd Möbius. 71-76 [doi]
• Optimization of Polish segmental duration prediction with CARTKatarzyna Klessa, Marcin Szymanski, Stefan Breuer, Grazyna Demenko. 77-80 [doi]
• Utilization of an HMM-based feature generation module in 5 ms segment concatenative speech synthesisToshio Hirai, Junichi Yamagishi, Seiichi Tenpaku. 81-84 [doi]
• Clustering algorithm for F0 curves based on hidden Markov modelsDamien Lolive, Nelly Barbot, Olivier Boëffard. 85-89 [doi]
• Building a better Indian English voice using "more data"Rohit Kumar, Rashmi Gangadharaiah, Sharath Rao, Kishore Prahallad, Carolyn Penstein Rosé, Alan W. Black. 90-94 [doi]
• Creating German unit selection voices for the MARY TTS platform from the BITS corporaMarc Schröder, Anna Hunecke. 95-100 [doi]
• Regression approaches to voice quality controll based on one-to-many eigenvoice conversionKumi Ohta, Yamato Ohtani, Tomoki Toda, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano. 101-106 [doi]
• An evaluation of many-to-one voice conversion algorithms with pre-stored speaker data setsDaisuke Tani, Yamato Ohtani, Tomoki Toda, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano. 107-112 [doi]
• Towards an improved modeling of the glottal source in statistical parametric speech synthesisJoão P. Cabral, Steve Renals, Korin Richmond, Junichi Yamagishi. 113-118 [doi]
• GMM-based speech transformation systems under data reductionLarbi Mesbahi, Vincent Barreaud, Olivier Boëffard. 119-124 [doi]
• Improved average-voice-based speech synthesis using gender-mixed modeling and a parameter generation algorithm considering GVJunichi Yamagishi, Takao Kobayashi, Steve Renals, Simon King, Heiga Zen, Tomoki Toda, Keiichi Tokuda. 125-130 [doi]
• An excitation model for HMM-based speech synthesis based on residual modelingRanniery Maia, Tomoki Toda, Heiga Zen, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Keiichi Tokuda. 131-136 [doi]
• An HMM-based bilingual (Mandarin-English) TTSHui Liang, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong. 137-142 [doi]
• Data-driven approach to rapid prototyping Xhosa speech synthesisJustus C. Roux, Albert S. Visagie. 143-147 [doi]
• CRF-based statistical learning of Japanese accent sandhi for developing Japanese text-to-speech synthesis systemsNobuaki Minematsu, Ryo Kuroiwa, Keikichi Hirose, Michiko Watanabe. 148-153 [doi]
• Two-step generation of Mandarin F0 contours based on tone nucleus and superpositional modelsQinghua Sun, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu. 154-159 [doi]
• Design of tree-based context clustering for an HMM-based Thai speech synthesis systemSuphattharachai Chomphan, Takao Kobayashi. 160-165 [doi]
• Development of a BOSS unit selection module for tone languagesArne Bachmann, Stefan Breuer. 166-171 [doi]
• Unit-selection text-to-speech synthesis using an asynchronous interpolation modelAlexander Kain, Jan P. H. van Santen. 172-177 [doi]
• Modelling voiceless speech segments by means of an additive procedure based on the computation of formant sinusoidsIngo Hertrich, Hermann Ackermann. 178-181 [doi]
• Using articulatory position data in voice transformationArthur R. Toth, Alan W. Black. 182-187 [doi]
• Text processing for text-to-speech systems in Indian languagesAnand Arokia Raj, Tanuja Sarkar, Sathish Chandra Pammi, Santhosh Yuvaraj, Mohit Bansal, Kishore Prahallad, Alan W. Black. 188-193 [doi]
• Flexible harmonic/stochastic speech synthesisDaniel Erro, Asunción Moreno, Antonio Bonafonte. 194-199 [doi]
• Prosody modelling in Czech text-to-speech synthesisJan Romportl, Jirí Kala. 200-205 [doi]
• Measuring attribute dissimilarity with HMM KL-divergence for speech synthesisYong Zhao, Chengsuo Zhang, Frank K. Soong, Min Chu, Xi Xiao. 206-210 [doi]
• Lagrangian relaxation for optimal corpus designJonathan Chevelu, Nelly Barbot, Olivier Boëffard, Arnaud Delhay. 211-216 [doi]
• Adaptive database reduction for domain specific speech synthesisAleksandra Krul, Géraldine Damnati, François Yvon, Cédric Boidin, Thierry Moudenc. 217-222 [doi]
• 2 rhythm for disfluent speech synthesisJordi Adell, Antonio Bonafonte, David Escudero. 223-227 [doi]
• Quantitative analysis of F0 contours of emotional speech of MandarinWentao Gu, Tan Lee. 228-233 [doi]
• Maximum-likelihood dynamic intonation model for concatenative text-to-speech systemSlava Shechtman. 234-239 [doi]
• Data-driven extraction of intonation contour classesUwe D. Reichel. 240-245 [doi]
• Word accentuation prediction using a neural net classifierTaniya Mishra, Emily Tucker Prud'hommeaux, Jan P. H. van Santen. 246-251 [doi]
• Issues of optionality in pitch accent placementLeonardo Badino, Robert A. J. Clark. 252-257 [doi]
• Single speaker segmentation and inventory selection using dynamic time warping self organization and joint multigram mappingMatthew P. Aylett, Simon King. 258-263 [doi]
• How (not) to select your voice corpus: random selection vs. phonologically balancedTanya Lambert, Norbert Braunschweiler, Sabine Buchholz. 264-269 [doi]
• Unit selection synthesis using long non-uniform units and phonemic identity matchingLukas Latacz, Yuk On Kong, Werner Verhelst. 270-275 [doi]
• Evaluation of various unit types in the unit selection approach for the Czech language using the Festival systemMartin Gruber, Daniel Tihelka, Jindrich Matousek. 276-281 [doi]
• Assessing the adequate treatment of fast speech in unit selection speech synthesis systems for the visually impairedDonata Moers, Petra Wagner, Stefan Breuer. 282-287 [doi]
• Making speech synthesis more accessible to older peopleMaria K. Wolters, Pauline Campbell, Christine DePlacido, Amy Liddell, David Owens. 288-293 [doi]
• The HMM-based speech synthesis system (HTS) version 2.0Heiga Zen, Takashi Nose, Junichi Yamagishi, Shinji Sako, Takashi Masuko, Alan W. Black, Keiichi Tokuda. 294-299 [doi]
• eCIRCUS: building voices for autonomous speaking agentsChristian Weiss, Luís C. Oliveira, Sérgio Paulo, Carlos Mendes, Luís Figueira, Marco Vala, Pedro Sequeira, Ana Paiva, Thurid Vogt, Elisabeth André. 300-303 [doi]
• Unit selection synthesis in the Smartweb projectMartin Barbisch, Grzegorz Dogil, Bernd Möbius, Bettina Säuberlich, Antje Schweitzer. 304-309 [doi]
• Building a Finnish unit selection TTS systemHanna Silén, Elina Helander, Konsta Koppinen, Moncef Gabbouj. 310-315 [doi]
• Evaluating automatic syllabification algorithms for EnglishYannick Marchand, Connie R. Adsett, Robert I. Damper. 316-321 [doi]
• Voice building from insufficient data - classroom experiences with web-based language development toolsJohn Kominek, Tanja Schultz, Alan W. Black. 322-327 [doi]
• SVM based feature extraction in speech synthesisPeter Cahill, Jan Macek, Julie Carson-Berndsen. 328-332 [doi]
• Spectral conversion based on statistical models including time-sequence matchingYoshihiko Nankaku, Kenichi Nakamura, Tomoki Toda, Keiichi Tokuda. 333-338 [doi]
• Analysis of affective speech recordings using the superpositional intonation modelEsther Klabbers, Taniya Mishra, Jan P. H. van Santen. 339-344 [doi]
• Calliphony: a real-time intonation controller for expressive speech synthesisSylvain Le Beux, Albert Rilliard, Christophe d'Alessandro. 345-350 [doi]
• Epoch synchronous non-overlap-add (ESNOLA) method-based concatenative speech synthesis system for BanglaShyamal Das Mandal, Asoke Kumar Datta. 351-355 [doi]
• Syllable-based Thai duration model using multi-level linear regression and syllable accommodationChatchawarn Hansakunbuntheung, Hiroaki Kato, Yoshinori Sagisaka. 356-361 [doi]
• Linguistic and mixed excitation improvements on a HMM-based speech synthesis for Castilian SpanishXavier Gonzalvo, Joan Claudi Socoró, Ignasi Iriondo Sanz, Carlos Monzo, Elisa Martínez. 362-367 [doi]
• Inventory of intonation contours for text-to-speech synthesisTetyana Lyudovyk, Valentyna Robeiko. 368-373 [doi]
• Analysis methods for assessing TTS intelligibilityH. Timothy Bunnell, Jason Lilley. 374-379 [doi]
• Understandable production of massive synthesisBrian Langner, Alan W. Black. 380-384 [doi]
• The online evaluation of speech synthesis using eye movementsCharlotte van Hooijdonk, Edwin Commandeur, Reinier Cozijn, Emiel Krahmer, Erwin Marsi. 385-390 [doi]