Computational Linguistics Colloquium

Wednesday, 17 February 2010, 16:15
Meeting Room 3.23 ("Aquarium"), Building C7 4
Note: unusual date and place!

Corpus-based speech synthesis

A comprehensive and widely illustrated (audio, video) talk, based on : T. DUTOIT, 2008, "Corpus-based Speech Synthesis", Springer Handbook of Speech Processing, Benesty, Jacob; Sondhi, M. Mohan; Huang, Yiteng (Arden) (Eds.), Springer 2008. pp. 437-453. In this talk, I summarize the history of speech synthesis, and give an original view on its evolution, from diphone-based to unit selection to HMM-based, using Context-oriented clustering as a guideline.

If you would like to meet with the speaker, please contact Ingmar Steiner.