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HIASYNT - English text-to-speech based on optimal unit selection |
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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 |
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| Type of Project |
R&D |
| Date from |
2007 |
| Date to |
2008 |
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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 |
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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 |
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| Date from |
2003 |
| Date to |
2007 |
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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) |
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| Type of Project |
Basic research |
| Date from |
2003 |
| Date to |
2007 |
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| 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 |
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| Type of Project |
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| Date from |
2005 |
| Date to |
2006 |
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| More Research Projects>>> |
| 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
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| 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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