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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Text-to-Speech"”.
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Time-domain concatenative text-to-speech synthesis.
… framework for time-domain concatenative speech synthesis (TDCSS) is presented and evaluated. In this framework, speech segments are extracted from CV, VC, CVC and CC waveforms, and abutted. Speech rhythm is controlled via a single duration parameter, which specifies the initial portion of …
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Controlling Emotional Text to Speech Using Complex Adverbial Phrases
… from audiobook data as a resource for training speech synthesizers with a greater range of speech descriptions. The Tacotron2 text-to-speech (TTS) model was used for the purposes of this study. Utilizing the LibriTTS dataset, the Tacotron2 model is trained under two experimental conditions: one …
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Design of an advanced Text-To-Speech system for Afrikaans
Afrikaans is the home language to approximately six million people in South Africa. The need for an Afrikaans TTS system comes with the growing interest in integrating speech technology in all eleven languages of the country. The ultimate goal here is to enable communication between man and machine …
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Automatic generation of fundamental frequency for text-to-speech synthesis
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997.
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A computational model of prosody for Yorùbá text-to-speech synthesis
… for the Standard Yorùbá (SY) language in the context of computer text-to-speech synthesis applications. The thesis of this research is that it is possible to develop a practical prosody model by using appropriate computational tools and techniques which combines acoustic data with an encoding of …
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A general platform and markup language for text to speech synthesis
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.
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Quality of service (QoS) analysis frameworkn for text to speech (TTS) services
… evaluations is significant and necessary for text to speech web service applications. Text to speech media conversion quality measurements has general and specific mechanisms for its functional and nonfunctional requirements. The main objective of this thesis is to introduce QoS framework …
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Design of an advanced and fluent Sesotho text-to-speech system through intonation
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 97-101).
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The effects of part–of–speech tagging on text–to–speech synthesis for resource–scarce languages
… in South Africa is a large-scale endeavour to collect and apply such resources for all eleven of the official South African languages. One of the deliverables of the project is more natural text-to-speech (TTS) voices. Naturalness is primarily determined by prosody and it is shown that many …
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Iowa Virtual Literacy Protocol: A Pre-Experimental Design Using Kurzweil 3000 Text-To-Speech Software With Incarcerated Adult Learners
… out of school. The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of adaptive technology (text-to-speech software) on incarcerated low-literate adult populations. This study will determine the effectiveness of text-to-speech computer software technology with incarcerated adult learners seeking …
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Supporting Reading Comprehension of At-Risk Adolescent Readers Through the Use of Text-to-Speech Technology Paired with Strategic Instruction
ABSTRACT This research highlighted the use of text-to-speech technology and current shifts in strategy-based reading instruction in order to address the comprehension needs of struggling pre-adolescent readers. The following questions were posed: (a) Does reading comprehension of preadolescent …
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Determining effects of text-to-speech synthesis in a multimedia learning environment on science achievement for students with learning disabilities in reading
The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of text-to-speech in a multimedia learning environment on science achievement for students with learning disabilities in reading. The researcher examined how student achievement on unit tests was related to their participation with the …
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A Predictive Model of Prosody Through Grammatical Interface: A Computational Approach
This research contributes to our understanding of the interaction between components of linguistic grammar, in demonstrating the dependencies between phonetics, phonology, syntax and semantics in the encoding of prosody. In addition, my work building on a stochastic model of prosody prediction has …
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A voice interface for VTLS
The objective of this study was to develop a voice interface for the on-line catalog of VTLS. Three major components of the system, namely, voice recognition system, text-to-speech synthesizer, and screen review program, were identified. These components were selected after a comparative study of …
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Maltese text recognition tool for those with disability to access text
Currently, people with disability to access printed Maltese text require the assistance of another human reading aloud to them. This is not the case for text in English, since commercial text readers are available to carry out the same task. This, therefore, creates a disadvantage for those …
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Real-time speech animation system
… the synthesis procedure of a videorealistic speech animation system [7] to achieve real-time speech animation synthesis. A synthesis rate must be high enough for real-time video streaming for speech animation systems to be viable in industry and deployed as applications for user machine …
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Blind Estimation of Perceptual Quality for Modern Speech Communications
Modern speech communication technologies expose users to perceptual quality degradations that were not experienced earlier with conventional telephone systems. Since perceived speech quality is a major contributor to the end user's perception of quality of service, speech quality estimation has …
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Tools for supporting English language learning in the family context
… parents who are learning English as they read storybooks with their children. The mobile application and the context of its use provide a new interface to language learning tools such as text-to-speech, word translation, and shared-reading prompts. The thesis develops a set of design and …
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The audio-graphical interface to a personal integrated telecommunications system
… is developed which supports multi-modal access to multi-media mail. It is a testbed for developing novel methods of interactive information retrieval that are as intuitive and useful as the spoken word. A personalized telecommunications management system that handles both voice and electronic …
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