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Building synthetic voices for under-resourced languages: a comparison between audiobook and studio data

Author: De Wet, Febe ; Dlamini, Nkosikhona ; Van der Walt, Willem J ; Govender, Avashna Date: Dec 2017 Creating synthetic voices that are both natural and intelligible is a daunting challenge for well-resourced languages. The challenge is much bigger for languages in which the speech and text resources required for voice development are not ... Read more
Cognitive load of modern TTS systems under noisy conditions

Author: Govender, Avashna ; King, S Date: Nov 2023 Cognitive load of text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis systems measured in the past consistently showed that processing synthetic speech is more difficult to process than human speech in the presence of noise. However, the systems previously evaluated ... Read more
HMM Adaptation for child speech synthesis

Author: Govender, Avashna ; De Wet, Febe ; Tapamo, Jules-Raymond Date: Sep 2015 Hidden Markov Model (HMM)-based synthesis in combination with speaker adaptation has proven to be an approach that is well-suited for child speech synthesis. This paper describes the development and evaluation of different HMM-based child ... Read more
HMM adaptation for child speech synthesis using ASR data

Author: Govender, Avashna ; Nouhou, B ; De Wet, Febe Date: Nov 2015 Acquiring large amounts of child speech data is a particularly difficult task. One could therefore consider the possibility to add existing corpora of child speech data to the severely limited resources that are available for developing child ... Read more
Multi-MelGAN voice conversion for the creation of under-resourced child speech synthesis

Author: Govender, Avashna Date: May 2022 Voice conversion (VC) is an important technique for the development of text-to-speech voices in the use case of lacking speech resources. VC can convert an audio signal from a source speaker to a specific target speaker whilst maintaining the ... Read more
Objective measures to improve the selection of training speakers in HMM-based child speech synthesis

Author: Govender, Avashna ; De Wet, Febe Date: Dec 2016 Building synthetic child voices is considered a difficult task due to the challenges associated with data collection. As a result, speaker adaptation in conjunction with Hidden Markov Model (HMM)-based synthesis has become prevalent in this ... Read more
The Speect text-to-speech entry for the Blizzard Challenge 2016

Author: Louw, Johannes A ; Moodley, Avashlin ; Govender, Avashna Date: Sep 2016 This paper describes the Speect text-to-speech system entry submitted to the Blizzard Challenge 2016. The focus of this entry was to build a data driven text-to-speech system that generates an expressive voice suitable for children’s audio ... Read more

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