Table of Contents

• Exploration of the other aspect of vocoder revisited: A-Z STRAIGHT, TANDEM-STRAIGHT and morphingHideki Kawahara. 32-37 [doi]
• Speech synthesis without the right dataSimon King. 38 [doi]
• Crafting small databases for unit selection TTS: effects on intelligibilityH. Timothy Bunnell. 40-44 [doi]
• Composite TTS voicesAlistair Conkie, Ann K. Syrdal. 45-48 [doi]
• Compression of line spectral frequency parameters using the asynchronous interpolation modelAlexander Kain, Todd K. Leen. 49-54 [doi]
• GMM-PCA based speaker-timbre conversion on full-quality speechFernando Villavicencio, Esteban Maestre. 56-61 [doi]
• Voice conversion using precise speech alignment based on spectral property and eigen-codeword distributionYi-Chin Huang, Chung-Hsien Wu, Chung-Han Lee, Yu-Ting Chao. 62-67 [doi]
• On transforming spectral peaks in voice conversionElizabeth Godoy, Olivier Rosec, Thierry Chonavel. 68-73 [doi]
• Linear transformation approaches to many-to-one voice conversionChie Hayashida, Tomoki Toda, Yamato Ohtani, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano. 74-79 [doi]
• HMM-based robust voice conversion using adaptive F0 quantizationTakashi Nose, Takao Kobayashi. 80-85 [doi]
• Statistical parametric speech synthesis with joint estimation of acoustic and excitation model parametersRanniery Maia, Heiga Zen, Mark J. F. Gales. 88-93 [doi]
• From discontinuous to continuous F0 modelling in HMM-based speech synthesisKai Yu, Blaise Thomson, Steve Young. 94-99 [doi]
• Spectral modeling with contextual additive structure for HMM-based speech synthesisShinji Takaki, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Keiichi Tokuda. 100-105 [doi]
• Bayesian speech synthesis framework integrating training and synthesis processesKei Hashimoto, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Keiichi Tokuda. 106-111 [doi]
• Symbolic vs. acoustics-based style control for expressive unit selectionIngmar Steiner, Marc Schröder, Marcela Charfuelan, Annette Klepp. 114-119 [doi]
• Application of expressive TTS synthesis in an advanced ECA systemJan Romportl, Enrico Zovato, Raúl Aquino-Santos, Pavel Ircing, José Relaño-Gil, Morena Danieli. 120-125 [doi]
• A hidden Markov model-based approach for emotional speech synthesisChih-Yung Yang, Chia-Ping Chen. 126-129 [doi]
• Two vocoder techniques for neutral to emotional timbre conversionFabio Tesser, Enrico Zovato, Mauro Nicolao, Piero Cosi. 130-135 [doi]
• Evaluating speech synthesis intelligibility using Amazon Mechanical TurkMaria K. Wolters, Karl Isaac, Steve Renals. 136-141 [doi]
• Further exploration of the possibilities and pitfalls of multidimensional scaling as a tool for the evaluation of the quality of synthesized speechAnna C. Janska, Robert A. J. Clark. 142-147 [doi]
• Handling large audio files in audio books for building synthetic voicesKishore Prahallad, Alan W. Black. 148-153 [doi]
• Improving speech synthesis for noisy environmentsGopala Krishna Anumanchipalli, Prasanna Kumar Muthukumar, Udhyakumar Nallasamy, Alok Parlikar, Alan W. Black, Brian Langner. 154-159 [doi]
• Learning speaker-specific phrase breaks for text-to-speech systemsKishore Prahallad, E. Veera Raghavendra, Alan W. Black. 162-166 [doi]
• Substitution of state distributions to reproduce natural prosody on HMM-based speech synthesizersNobuyuki Nishizawa, Tsuneo Kato. 167-172 [doi]
• Utilising spontaneous conversational speech in HMM-based speech synthesisJ. Sebastian Andersson, Junichi Yamagishi, Robert A. J. Clark. 173-178 [doi]
• Speech acts and dialog TTSAnn K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie, Yeon-Jun Kim, Mark C. Beutnagel. 179-183 [doi]
• HMM-based polyglot speech synthesis by speaker and language adaptive trainingHeiga Zen, Norbert Braunschweiler, Sabine Buchholz, Kate Knill, Sacha Krstulovic, Javier Latorre. 186-191 [doi]
• Speaker adaptation and the evaluation of speaker similarity in the EMIME speech-to-speech translation projectMirjam Wester, John Dines, Matthew Gibson, Hui Liang, Yi-Jian Wu, Lakshmi Saheer, Simon King, Keiichiro Oura, Philip N. Garner, William Byrne, Yong Guan, Teemu Hirsimäki, Reima Karhila, Mikko Kurimo, Matt Shannon, Sayaka Shiota, Jilei Tian, Keiichi Tokuda, Junichi Yamagishi. 192-197 [doi]
• Toward naturally expressive speech synthesis: data - driven emotion detection using latent affective analysisJerome R. Bellegarda. 200-205 [doi]
• KLATTSTAT: knowledge-based parametric speech synthesisGopala Krishna Anumanchipalli, Ying-Chang Cheng, Joseph Fernandez, Xiaohan Huang, Qi Mao, Alan W. Black. 206-210 [doi]
• Recent development of the HMM-based singing voice synthesis system - SinsyKeiichiro Oura, Ayami Mase, Tomohiko Yamada, Satoru Muto, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Keiichi Tokuda. 211-216 [doi]
• Photo-real lips synthesis with trajectory-guided sample selectionLijuan Wang, Xiaojun Qian, Wei Han, Frank K. Soong. 217-222 [doi]
• Implementation of VTLN for statistical speech synthesisLakshmi Saheer, John Dines, Philip N. Garner, Hui Liang. 224-229 [doi]
• Do prosodic cues influence uncertainty perception in articulatory speech synthesis?Eva Lasarcyk, Charlotte Wollermann. 230-235 [doi]
• An unified and automatic approach of Mandarin HTS systemYong Guan, Jilei Tian, Yi-Jian Wu, Junichi Yamagishi, Jani Nurminen. 236-239 [doi]
• Synthesis of listener vocalisations with imposed intonation contoursSathish Pammi, Marc Schröder, Marcela Charfuelan, Oytun Türk, Ingmar Steiner. 240-245 [doi]
• An investigation of the impact of speech transcript errors on HMM voicesJinfu Ni, Hisashi Kawai. 246-251 [doi]
• An HMM-based singing style modeling system for singing voice synthesizersKeijiro Saino, Makoto Tachibana, Hideki Kenmochi. 252-257 [doi]
• Lombard effect mimickingDong-Yan Huang, Susanto Rahardja, Ee Ping Ong. 258-263 [doi]
• Unsupervised prosody labeling for constructing Mandarin TTSChen-Yu Chiang, Sin-Horng Chen, Yih-Ru Wang. 264-269 [doi]
• Analysis and synthesis of hypo- and hyperarticulated speechBenjamin Picart, Thomas Drugman, Thierry Dutoit. 270-275 [doi]
• Evaluating prosody in synthetic speech with online (eye-tracking) and offline (rating) methodsRajakrishnan Rajkumar, Michael White, Shari R. Speer, Kiwako Ito. 276-281 [doi]
• Refined statistical model tuning for speech synthesisXu Shao, Vincent Pollet, Andrew P. Breen. 284-287 [doi]
• High quality TTS voices within one dayDidier Cadic, Christophe d'Alessandro. 288-293 [doi]
• Nativization of English words in Spanish using analogyTatyana Polyakova, Antonio Bonafonte. 294-299 [doi]
• Automatic prosodic labeling of accent information for Japanese spoken sentencesAsami Yamamoto, Kazuhiro Suzuki, Kook Cho, Yoichi Yamashita. 300-305 [doi]
• An automatic pitch model with distance functionMohamed Abou-Zleikha, Peter Cahill, Julie Carson-Berndsen. 306-311 [doi]
• Considering readability in text-to-speech recording script designMinghui Dong, Ling Cen, Paul Y. Chan, Haizhou Li. 312-316 [doi]
• Letter-based speech synthesisOliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King. 317-322 [doi]
• Joint prosodic and segmental unit selection for expressive speech synthesisChristophe Veaux, Pierre Lanchantin, Xavier Rodet. 323-327 [doi]
• Speech synthesis in the mobile user interfacePieter Scholtz, Justus C. Roux, Jacques P. du Toit. 328-331 [doi]
• Comparison of formant enhancement methods for HMM-based speech synthesisTuomo Raitio, Antti Suni, Hannu Pulakka, Martti Vainio, Paavo Alku. 334-339 [doi]
• EM-HTS: real-time HMM-based Malay emotional speech synthesisMumtaz B. Mustafa, Raja Noor Ainon, Roziati Zainuddin. 340-344 [doi]
• High level emotional speech morphing using STRAIGHTDong-Yan Huang, Susanto Rahardja, Ee Ping Ong. 345-350 [doi]
• Adding speaking style to a TTS systemJean Philippe Goldman, Sophie Roekhaut, Anne-Catherine Simon. 351-354 [doi]
• Synthesizing fast speech by implementing multi-phone units in unit selection speech synthesisDonata Moers, Igor Jauk, Bernd Möbius, Petra Wagner. 355-358 [doi]
• Improved generation of prosodic features in HMM-based Mandarin speech synthesisMiaomiao Wang, Miaomiao Wen, Daisuke Saito, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu. 359-364 [doi]
• An HMM-based speech synthesiser using glottal post-filteringJoão P. Cabral, Steve Renals, Korin Richmond, Junichi Yamagishi. 365-370 [doi]
• A study of lexical stress patterns in unit selection synthesisYeon-Jun Kim, Mark C. Beutnagel. 371-376 [doi]
• Automatic prominence annotation of a German speech synthesis corpus: towards prominence-based prosody generation for unit selection synthesisAndreas Windmann, Petra Wagner, Fabio Tamburini, Denis Arnold, Catharine Oertel. 377-382 [doi]