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Automatic stylization, coding and modelling of intonation in text-to-speech for under-resourced languages

Author: Louw, Johannes A ; Moodley, Avashlin Date: Dec 2017 In this paper an automatic method to implicitly model intonation for statistical parametric speech synthesis (SPSS) is presented. The approach is ideally suited to single speaker speech databases as used in text-to-speech (TTS), due to the ... Read more
Rhonda: The architecture of a multilingual speech-to-speech translation pipeline

Author: Louw, Johannes A ; Moodley, Avashlin Date: Dec 2018 Speech-to-speech translation can be described as converting a speech signal from a source language into a speech signal of the same meaning or intent into a target language. This process is achieved by the coordinated cooperation of individual ... Read more
Speaker specific phrase break modeling with conditional random fields for text-to-speech

Author: Louw, Johannes A ; Moodley, Avashlin Date: Dec 2016 In this paper we present a new cascading conditional random field based phrase break model for text-to-speech systems, trained on the speaker specific acoustic data that the text-to-speech voices are trained on. The training phase does not ... 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
Topic modelling of news articles for two consecutive elections in South Africa

Author: Moodley, Avashlin ; Marivate, Vukosi N Date: Nov 2019 In election cycles, the political-themed articles published by news providers present a rich source of information about election discourse. Extracting useful themes from a large article corpus manually is infeasible, text mining techniques ... Read more
Water quality information dissemination at real-time in South Africa using language modelling

Author: Lourens, Roger L ; Patra, A ; Hassim, Luqmaan ; Sima, Faheem ; Moodley, Avashlin ; Sharma, P Date: Dec 2018 We present a conversational model to apprise users with limited access to computational resources about water quality and real-time accessibility for a given location. We used natural language understanding through neural embedding driven ... Read more

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