This paper presents Mimic : a decision-tree based concatenative voice adaptive text to speech synthesiser. Mimic integrates text to speech synthesis (TTS) with speech recognition and speaker adaptation. Speech is synthesised from concatenation of triphone synthesis units. The triphone units are obtained from clusters of training examples modelled, labelled and segmented using clustered HMMs and...

A recently developed Finite-Element (FE) model for the precise computation of electrostatic driven MEMS (Micro-ElectroMechanical-Systems) is presented. Thereby, we fully take geometric nonlinearity, contact in the snap-in mode, nonlinear electrostatic coupling forces as well as the moving of charged thin membrane-plate structures (electrodes) in an electric field into account. Furthermore, sinc...

The past twenty years have seen a variety of data being collected from largely undocumented languages in eastern Indonesia, an area hitherto almost unknown. Such data are valuable in reconstructing the history of this area at a macro-level. In addition, as research in particular areas becomes more fine-grained, it is possible to combine linguistic data with data from oral history and ethnograph...

The advanced intonation model for speech synthesis described here has a three level architecture. An initial abstract characterisation designed to represent intonation at the level of cognitive percept is rewritten to an intermediate representation which is speaker independent, yet which accurately reflects physical pitch contours. At this stage the contours lack the variability associated with...