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College Photo Name Gobl, Christer Erwin
Main Department CLCS
College Title Lecturer in Speech Science
E-mail cegobl@tcd.ie
College Tel +353 1 896 2592
Web http://people.tcd.ie/cegobl
 
Research Projects
Project title HIASYNT - English text-to-speech based on optimal unit selection
Summary The aim of this project is to provide the necessary prerequisites for the development of a complete English text-to-speech synthesis system, based on optimal unit selection. Working within the Hitachi speech synthesis framework, research and development will be focused on corpus design, post-linguistic processing and prosody modelling (€164,000).
Funding Agency Hitachi, Ltd, Japan
Programme
Type of Project R&D
Date from 2007
Date to 2008
Person Months


Project title EMOVOICE - The analysis of voice quality in emotive speech
Summary The project explores new methodologies for the analysis of voice quality for the purpose of capturing the characteristics of expressive and emotionally coloured speech. It funds a postdoctoral fellow for two years (€98,600).
Funding Agency IRCSET - Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technlogy
Programme Postdoctoral Fellowship
Type of Project Basic research
Date from 2005
Date to 2007
Person Months


Project title HUMAINE - Human-Machine Interaction Network on Emotion
Summary EU Network of Excellence whose goal is to develop systems that can register, model and/or influence human emotional states and processes (http://emotion-research.net/). (€103,000 to TCD partner)
Funding Agency EU
Programme Sixth Framework
Type of Project
Date from 2003
Date to 2007
Person Months


Project title IRISH PROSODY - Prosody of Irish Dialects: the use of intonation, rhythm, voice quality for linguistic and paralinguistic signalling
Summary The analysis of the prosodic structure of Irish including the four main dialects. (€113,100)
Funding Agency Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS)
Programme
Type of Project Basic research
Date from 2003
Date to 2007
Person Months


Project title VOCON - Voice Control in Unit-Selection Concatenative Synthesis
Summary Project exploring how the voice can be controlled in speech synthesis systems based on non-uniform unit-selection concatenation. In collaboration with visting Senior Research from Hitachi (€42,000)
Funding Agency Hitachi, Japan
Programme
Type of Project
Date from 2005
Date to 2006
Person Months


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Publications
Peer Reviewed
Gobl, C., Modelling Aspiration Noise During Phonation Using the LF Voice Source Model, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH 2006, Pittsburgh, 2006, 965 - 968
Gobl, C., Aspiration noise generation based on glottal pulse characteristics, Proceedings of the 9th Western Pacific Acoustics Conference, Seoul, Korea, 2006, pp8, paper 274
Gobl, C. and Ní Chasaide, A., The role of voice quality in communicating emotion, mood and attitude, Speech Communication, 40, 2003, 189 - 212
Gobl, C., The voice source in speech communication – production and perception experiments involving inverse filtering and synthesis, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, ISBN 91-7283-630-X, 2003
Url
Gobl, C. and Ní Chasaide, A. , Amplitude-based source parameters for measuring voice quality, Proceedings of the ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop VOQUAL’03 on Voice Quality: Functions, Analysis and Synthesis, Geneva, 2003, 151 - 156
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