Speak! speech synthesis meeting.

The purpose of these regular informal meetings is to discuss and share progress relating to speech synthesis (audio and visual) research - within CSTR specifically as well as in the field generally. Talks are intended to be short and informal, with an emphasis on discussion, interaction and feedback. Relevant references should be sent round in advance to encourage everyone to contribute.

Everybody with an interest in speech synthesis (audio and visual) research is welcome.

• Meetings will typically be held in the Instrumented Meeting Room ("IMR" - room 3.07), on Level 3 of the Informatics Forum building (though this may vary on odd occasions.)
• At present, the standard time for these meetings is Thursdays at 2-3pm.

(NOTE: go to this topic to edit the schedule included below)

Speak! synthesis meetings schedule for 2014/2015

• Reccurent latent variable model for sequential data: paper

Details of suggested papers to read:

Acoustic modelling etc:

• Chunwijitra, Nose & Kobayashi. A speech parameter generation algorithm using local variance for HMM-based speech synthesis. In Proc. Interspeech, 2012

• Sorin, Shectman & Pollet. Psychoacoustic Segment Scoring for Multi-Form Speech Synthesis. In Proc. Interspeech, 2012

• Takamichi, Toda, Shiga, Kawai, Sakti & Nakamura. An Evaluation of Parameter Generation Methods with Rich Context Models in HMM-Based Speech Synthesis. In Proc. Interspeech, 2012

Other:

• Eyben et al.: Unsupervised Clustering of Emotion and Voice Styles for Expressive TTS. In Proc. ICASSP, 2012

Scratchpad for other suggestions for meeting topics:

* Catherine - Talk on quotation work

* Statistical Text-to-Speech Synthesis with Improved Dynamics. Stas Tiomkin, David Malah; Technion IIT, Israel. Proc Interspeech 2008

* Tomoki Toda's work on voice conversion using less than one sentence of speech

* The Expression and Perception of Emotions: Comparing Assessments of Self versus Others Carlos Busso, Shrikanth S. Narayanan; University of Southern California, USA. In Proc. Interspeech 2008

* Scripted Dialogs versus Improvisation: Lessons Learned About Emotional Elicitation Techniques from the IEMOCAP Database Carlos Busso, Shrikanth S. Narayanan; University of Southern California, USA. In Proc. Interspeech 2008

* ZZT transform (Dutoit's student thesis) - IEEE journal paper (ACTION ON Matthew to find this paper)

-- Main.korin - 12 Sep 2013

Speak! meeting schedules

• Speak! 2013-2014
• Speak! 2012-2013 Semester 1
• Speak! 2011-2012 Semester 2
• Speak! 2011-2012
• Speak! 2010-2011
• Speak! 2009-2010
• Speak! 2008-2009
• Speak! 2007-2008