Tied-mixture HMMs have been proposed as the acoustic model for large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition and have yielded promising results. They share base-distribution and provide more flexibility in choosing the degree of tying than state-...
The 'Kabushiki Shikyo' program broadcast on NHK Radio 2 reports on the daily closing prices and net changes of about 830 stocks listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Reading out the numerical values without making mistakes within the allotted broadc...
Hiroyuki Segi   Kazuo Onoe   Shoei Sato   Akio Kobayashi   Akio Ando   
Journal of Information Technology Research 7(3) 15-31 2014年7月 [査読有り]
Tied-mixture HMMs have been proposed as the acoustic model for large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition and have yielded promising results. They share base-distribution and provide more flexibility in choosing the degree of tying than state-...
We have been conducting research on a high-quality speech synthesis system for automatic audio broadcasting. We propose voice synthesizer to read out a news flash for visually impaired.
This paper describes our study to implement a service that provides visually impaired people with a read-out presentation of a superimposed news flash text. Data broadcasting is used for automatic start-up of speech that is generated by a speech s...
This paper describes a perceptual experiment on naturalness of replacing a phoneme segment to other speaker's one in a speech synthesis and the results of word speech synthesis by the multi speaker database.