SSW4 Proceedings

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Keynote 1:

Visual synthesis
Gérard Bailly

Oral Session 1:

114: A Discourse Model for Pitch-Range Control
Gregor Moehler and Joerg Mayer
108: A bilingual speech design tool: Sesign2001
Masanobu Abe, Osamu Mizuno, Tsubasa Shinozaki, Hideyuki Mizuno and Shin'ya Nakajima
136: Creation of Speech Corpora for the Multilingual Bonn Open Synthesis System
Esther Klabbers and Karlheinz Stoeber

Oral Session 2:

125: Predicting phrase breaks with memory-based learning
Bertjan Busser, Walter Daelemans, Antal van den Bosch
137: On the Role of Duration Prediction and Symbolic Representation for the Evaluation of Synthetic Speech
Caren Brinckmann and Jürgen Trouvain
117: Rare Events and Closed Domains: Two Delicate Concepts in Speech Synthesis
Bernd Möbius
139: Predicting segmental duration using Bayesian belief networks
Olga Goubanova

Oral Session 3:

113: Prosodic Unit Selection Using an Imitation Speech Database
(examples)
Joram Meron
123: A New Distance Measure for Costing Spectral Discontinuities in Concatenative Speech Synthesisers
Robert E Donovan
129: Optimal Data Selection for Unit Selection Synthesis
Alan W Black and Kevin A. Lenzo
118: Definition of a Training Set for Unit Selection-Based Speech Synthesis
(examples)
Karlheinz Stöber, Petra Wagner, Esther Klabbers, Wolfgang Hess
122: A Text-to-Speech Platform for Variable Length Optimal Unit Searching Using Perceptual Cost Functions
Minkyu Lee, Daniel P. Lopresti, Joseph P. Olive

Keynote 2:

Unit Selection Synthesis
Yoshinori Sagisaka

Oral Session 4:

106:Synthesizing static vowels and dynamic sounds using a 3D vocal tract model
Olov Engwall
107: Close shadowing natural vs synthetic speech
Gérard Bailly
142: Automatic Glottal Closed-Phase Location and Analysis by Kalman Filtering
John G McKenna

Oral Session 5:

103 A Pronunciation-by-Analogy Module for the Festival Text-to-Speech Synthesiser
Robert I. Damper, Craig Z. Stanbridge and Yannick Marchand
131: Bi-directional Conversion Between Graphemes and Phonemes Using a Joint N-gram Model
Lucian Galescu and James F. Allen
109: Input/Output Normalisation and Linguistic Analysis for a Multilingual Text-To-Speech Synthesis System
Philippe Boula de Mareüil and Benoît Soulage
102: A Neural Network and a Hybrid Approach for Accent Label Prediction
Achim F. Mueller and Ruediger Hoffmann

Oral Session 6:

116: Prospects for articulatory synthesis: A position paper
C H Shadle and R I Damper
111: From MBROLA to NU-MBROLA
Baris Bozkurt, Michel Bagein, Thierry Dutoit
112: The German Text-to-Speech Synthesis System MARY: A Tool for Research, Development and Teaching
Marc Schröder Jürgen Trouvain

Oral Session 7:

138: A selection/concatenation text-to-speech synthesis system: databases development, system design, comparative evaluation
Romain Prudon Christophe d'Alessandro
126: Predicting Underlying Pitch Targets for Intonation Modeling
Xuejing Sun

Posters 1 (Speech Synthesis Systems)

201: A Brief Outline of Aculab TTS: Multilingual TTS for Computer Telephony.
Alex Monoghan
202: Description of the AhoTTS System for the Basque Language.
Inma Hernaez, Eva Navas, Juan Luis Murugarren, Borja Etxebarria
203: Demo System fo NU-MBROLA concatonator.
Baris Bozkurt, Michel Bagein, Thierry Dutoit
204: Flite: a small fast run-time synthesis engine.
Alan W. Black, Kevin A. Lenzo
205: FipsVox: A French TTS based on a syntactic parser.
Jean-Philippe Goldman, Arnaud Gaudinat, Luka Nerima, Eric Wehrli
206: The DEMOSTHeNES Speech Composer.
Gerasimos Xydas, Georgios Kouroupetroglou
207: Current Status of the IBM Trainable Speech Synthesis System.
R. Donovan et al.
208: The UOP Text-to-Speech System for Greek Speech Synthesis.
P. Stathopoulou-Zois
209: Actor: A Multilingual Unit-Selection Speech Synthesis System.
Silva Quazza, Laura Donetti, Loreta Moisa, Pier Luigi Salza

Posters 2 (Scientific)

135: A database design for a concatenative speech synthesis system for the disabled
Akemi Iida, Nick Campbell
141: Linking Form to Meaning: The Expression and Recognition of Emotions Through Prosody
Li-chiung Yang and Nick Campbell
140: Prosody evaluation as a diagnostic process: subjective vs. objective measurements
Albert Rilliard Véronique Aubergé
133: Synthesis of Emotional Speech Using Prosodically Balanced VCV Segments
Yasuhisa Niimi, Masanori Kasamatsu, Takuya Nishinoto and Masahiro Araki
132: Implementing and Evaluating an Integrated Approach to Modeling German Prosody
Hansjoerg Mixdorff and Oliver Jokisch
130: Hierarchical Structure and Word Strength Predication of Mandarin Prosody
Greg P. Kochanski Chilin Shih Hongyan Jing
127: Prosodic Phrasing: Machine and Human Evaluation
M. Céu Viana, Luis C. Oliveira, Ana I. Mata
124: Synthesis of Prosodic Styles
Chilin Shih Greg P. Kochanski
120: A Multi-lingual System for the Determination of Phonetic Word Stress Using Soft Feature Selection by Neural Networks
Horst-Udo Hain Hans Georg Zimmermann
115: A Concatenative Mandarin TTS System without Prosody Model and Prosody Modification
Min Chu, Hu Peng and Eric Chang
110: An implementation and evaluation of two diphone-based synthesizers for Turkish
Baris Bozkurt and Thierry Dutoit
105: A Metrical Model of Prosody for French TTS
Alex Monaghan and Fred Sannier

SSW4 Programme Committee 2001-10-22