Stylization and Trajectory Modelling of Short and Long Term Speech Prosody Variations

MeLos: Analysis and Modelling of Speech Prosody and Speaking Style

This thesis addresses the issue of modelling speech prosody for speech synthesis, and presents MeLos: a complete system for the analysis and modelling of speech prosody “the music of speech”. Research into the analysis and modelling of speech prosody has increased dramatically in recent decades, and speech prosody has emerged as a crucial concern for speech synthesis. The issue of speech prosod...

Prosody annotation for corpus based speech synthesis

The paper concerns prosody annotation especially for application in a corpus based speech synthesis. In order to establish the rules of automatic intonation modelling, phonetically labeled speech database of 4 hours has been perceptually and acoustically analyzed. The speech material included different text types and prosodically rich phrases. The annotation of the speech database consists in p...

Short-term and Long-term Impact of Video-driven Metapragmatic Awareness Raising on Speech Act Production: A Case of Iranian Interme-diate EFL Learners

SLAM: Automatic Stylization and Labelling of Speech Melody

This paper presents SLAM : a simple method for the automatic Stylization and LAbelling of speech Melody. This main contributions over existing methods are : the alphabet of melodic contours is fully data-driven, an explicit time-frequency representation is used to derive complex melodic contours, and melodic contours can be determined over arbitrary prosodic/syntactic units. Additionally, the s...

Tree Memory Networks for Modelling Long-term Temporal Dependencies

In the domain of sequence modelling, Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) have been capable of achieving impressive results in a variety of application areas including visual question answering, part-of-speech tagging and machine translation. However this success in modelling short term dependencies has not successfully transitioned to application areas such as trajectory prediction, which require c...