11.11.08 | Discussion of the work of Javier Latorre on polyglot speech synthesis, led by Oliver. See latorre-2006 attached below. The paper mostly deals with porting a given speaker's voice characteristics to languages for which we have no data for that speaker (but have data for other speakers in that language). However, one part of the experiment reported in the article deals with synthesis of languages for which we have no data at all by using acoustic models of similar speech units in languages that have been trained on. This is what I want to focus on in the discussion, and in this connection, it might be worth taking a look at Tanja Schultz's earlier paper on similar methods in ASR. I've also attached Latorre's doctoral thesis, just in case anyone wants to take a look. |
18.11.08 | Progress reports: Sebastian |
25.11.08 | Tuomo Raitio (visiting from TKK Helsinki University of Technology) - will present his work on source modelling in HMM-based speech synthesis (* NOTE: ROOM 4.31 *) |
02.12.08 | Progress reports: Junichi |
09.12.08 | Interspeech (+Blizzard) paper discussions |
16.12.08 | Progress reports: Volker |
Christmas break | Christmas break |
13.01.09 | Progress reports: Matthew |
26.01.09 | Discussion of STRAIGHT (two papers STRAIGHT-original.pdf ("the" paper) and STRAIGHT-Implement.pdf (additional, shorter note on implementation)) |
02.02.09 | Progress reports: Gregor |
09.02.09 | Interspeech (+Blizzard) paper discussions |
16.02.09 | Progress reports: Leonardo |
23.02.09 |
- ustc_Blizzard2008.pdf: Zhen-Hua Ling et al. "The USTC System for Blizzard Challenge 2008" in Proc. Blizzard Workshop 2008
- IS061456.PDF: Paul Taylor, "Unifying Unit Selection and Hidden Markov Model Speech Synthesis". Proc Interspeech 2006
- IS080193.PDF: Vincent Pollet, Andrew Breen. "Synthesis by Generation and Concatenation of Multiform Segments" in Proc. Interspeech 2008
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02.03.09 | Progress reports: Oliver |
09.03.09 |
- Zen survey paper (unpublished)
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16.03.09 | Progress reports: (no meeting) |
23.03.09 | Practice talks for Birmingham |
30.03.09 | Progress reports: (none - Birmingham meeting) |
06.04.09 | Presentation of Heiga Zen's survey work |
13.04.09 | Progress reports: |
20.04.09 | |
27.04.09 | Progress reports: |
04.05.09 | |
11.05.09 | Discussion about Interspeech synthesis demo |
18.05.09 | No meeting (University holiday) |
25.05.09 | Progress reports: |
01.06.09 | Progress reports: Korin |
08.06.09 | Junichi - EMIME Blizzard system |
18.06.09 | Maria - evaluating synthetic speech for older listeners ( NOTE unusual time slot) |
22.06.09 | Progress reports: Joao |
29.06.09 | Lit review cross-lingual voice similarity voice_similar_speak.pdf: Mirjam |
06.07.09 | |
13.07.09 | Discussion of Blizzard |
20.07.09 | Progress reports: Oliver |
27.07.09 | |
03.08.09 | |
10.08.09 | Progress reports: Volker | |
17.08.09 | Progress reports: Matthew |
24.08.09 | Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna (visitor to CSTR) |
31.08.09 | practice session for Interspeech "Voice Cloning" demo |
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