Author:Louw, Johannes A; Moodley, AvashlinDate:Dec 2017In 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
Author:Schlunz, Georg I; Dlamini, Nkosikhona; Kruger, Rynhardt PDate:Sep 2016Text-to-speech synthesis can be an empowering communication tool in the hands of the print-disabled or augmentative and alternative communication user. In an effort to improve the naturalness of synthesised speech – and thus enhance the ...Read more
Author:Govender, Natasha; Barnard, E; Davel, MHDate:Jun 2007Although the complexity of prosody is widely recognised, the lack of widely-accepted descriptive standards for prosodic phenomena has meant that prosodic systems for most of the languages of the world have, at best, been described in ...Read more
