Influence of speaker familiarity on blind and visually impaired children’s and young adults’ perception of synthetic voices

Autor: Thomas Woltron, Erich Schmid, Michael Pucher, Dietmar Schabus, Markus Toman, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Bettina Zillinger, Junichi Yamagishi

Publikováno v: Puchera, M, Zillinger, B, Toman, M, Schabus, D, Valentini Botinhao, C, Yamagishi, J, Schmid, E & Woltron, T 2017, ' Influence of speaker familiarity on blind and visually impaired children’s and young adults’ perception of synthetic voices ', Computer Speech and Language, vol. 46, pp. 179-195 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2017.05.010

In this paper, we evaluate how speaker familiarity influences the engagement times and performance of blind children and young adults when playing audio games made with different synthetic voices. We also show how speaker familiarity influences speak

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2017.05.010

Intelligibility of time-compressed synthetic speech: Compression method and speaking style

Autor: Junichi Yamagishi, Dietmar Schabus, Michael Pucher, Markus Toman, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao

Publikováno v: Speech Communication. 74:52-64

Analysis of listeners' intelligibility of natural and synthetic time-compressed speech.Different compression methods are applied to normal and fast speech.We evaluated a linear method and two non linear methods that act on the duration model.The line

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2015.09.002

An Open Source Speech Synthesis Frontend for HTS

Autor: Markus Toman, Michael Pucher

Publikováno v: Text, Speech, and Dialogue ISBN: 9783319240329
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This paper describes a software framework for HMM-based speech synthesis that we have developed and released to the public. The framework is compatible to the well-known HTS toolkit by incorporating hts_engine and Flite. It enables HTS voices to be u

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24033-6_33

Intelligibility analysis of fast synthesized speech

Autor: Markus Toman, Junichi Yamagishi, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Dietmar Schabus, Michael Pucher

Publikováno v: Valentini-Botinhao, C, Toman, M, Pucher, M, Schabus, D & Yamagishi, J 2014, Intelligibility analysis of fast synthesized speech . in Interspeech . Singapore .
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In this paper we analyse the effect of speech corpus and compression method on the intelligibility of synthesized speech at fast rates. We recorded English and German language voice talents at a normal and a fast speaking rate and trained an HSMMbase

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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11820/71f8bdb8-b398-4ab9-bfb7-a6c28045496c

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Publikováno v: Informatics in Schools. Curricula, Competences & Competitions; 2015, p1-1, 1p