The SIMPLE4ALL project is creating speech synthesis technology that learns from data with little or no expert supervision and continually improves itself, simply by being used.
Publications
Public deliverables
- D1.6 - to be published after final review
- D2.1: Initial synthesis front end description
- D2.2: Description of the final version of the front-end
- D3.1: Automatic parameterization with WLP-based GIF-techniques
- D3.2: Report describing initial version of deep layered models
- D3.3: Evaluation of the new speech signal model in conjunction with HMM-based acoustic models
- D3.4: Report describing the final version of the deep layered models
- D3.5: Final evaluation report
- D4.1: Learning from user-provided data
- D4.2: Online learning for improving one, or more than one component
- D4.3 – to be published after final review
- D5.1: Acoustic and prosodic analysis of genres and speaking styles
- D5.2: Final report on the implementation and evaluation of genre classification
- D6.1: Project website / remote collaboration tools
- D6.3 - to be published after final review
- D6.4 - to be published after final review
- D6.7 - to be published after final review
Internship reports
- Bajibabu Bollepalli: Effect of MPEG audio compression on HMM-based speech synthesis
- Jiunn Lin Wong: Realisation and simulation of the Mel log spectrum approximation filter
- Dalia Popescu: Unsupervised Text Syllabification with Information from Audio
- Srikanth Ronanki: Syllable based models for prosody modelling in HMM based speech synthesis
- Jose Moreno: Effects of Noise on a Speaker-Adaptive Statistical Speech Synthesis System
- Arturo Romero Blanco : Spanish Emotional Speech Synthesis
- Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba: Towards Cross-lingual Emotion Transplantation
- Ascension Gallardo: A Comparison of Open-Source Segmentation Architectures
Academic publications
Acronyms Adaptation affective agent Contextual Factors Creaky voice Deep neural network discriminative training DNN emotional speech expressive speech synthesis formants glottal flow glottal inverse filtering glottal source GlottHMM HMM intelligibility Lombard speech Markov chain Monte Carlo morfessor robust spectrum estimation speaking styles Speech synthesis statistical parametric speech synthesis text-to-speech transplantation unsupervised learning vector space model vocoder weighted linear prediction
| (2014): The Simple4All entry to the Blizzard Challenge 2014. In: Proc. Blizzard Challenge 2014 Workshop, Singapore, 2014. |
| (2014): Deep neural network based trainable voice source model for synthesis of speech with varying vocal effort. In: Proc. Interspeech 2014, pp. 1969-1973, Singapore, 2014. |
| (2014): Voice source modelling using deep neural networks for statistical parametric speech synthesis. In: Proc. of the 22nd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Lisbon, Portugal, 2014. |
