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The ISCA Special Interest Group on Iberian Languages (SIG-IL) board, pursuing the aims of organizing conferences, schools and workshops, promoting industry/university collaboration and offering a forum to discuss opportunities in research and industry applications in the field of Speech and Language Technology, decided to organize a new event, I Iberian SLTech-I Joint SIG-IL/Microsoft Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages.
I Iberian SLTech 2009
Adapting the Unisyn Lexicon to Portuguese: Preliminary issues in the development of LUPo2009 •
2010 •
In this paper, we describe the work of the LUPo project to integrate non-standard Luso-African varieties from Cape Verde and Mozambique into a rule system for generating accent-specific phonetic transcriptions for these and other spoken variants of Portuguese. Here, we present a description of LUPo's functions for online use, LUPo's architecture, and the manner of linguistic data collection and analysis that support this application. Implications for a subsequent text-to-speech (TTS) module are also presented in terms of yielding high-quality pronunciation lexica for regional variants of Portuguese, and towards facilitating the entry of hitherto untreated speech varieties into the digital domain. Index Terms: pronunciation lexicon, speech synthesis, Luso-African speech varieties, digitally endangered speech varieties
2018 •
Automatic spoken language recognition refers to a sequence of processes aim to transfer human perception ability of identifying spoken languages to machine using computer program. In spite of great achievements in the domain, the task is still challenging to be practically efficient and reliable. This paper run throughout decades of research attempts approaching optimal languages identification accuracy comparable to human ability of identifying spoken language. Analysis methodologies of extracting most relevant speech information were reviewed. Achievements of approach based on language dependent linguistics rules and those based only on spectral attributes conveys in speech signal were investigated and compared. Exists of standard multilingual speech corpora offers evaluation and comparison of varies speech analysis methods and classification algorithms in single speech variability effects environment. In spite of great achievements, this demanding multilingual communities' co...
This paper presents the text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system of La Salle (Universitat Ramon Llull, URL) and its adaptation to the Albayzin Evaluation Campaign of FALA2010 conference. The URL-TTS system follows the classical scheme of unit se-lection TTS synthesis systems. However, it presents two dis-tinguishable particularities: i) prosody prediction learned from labelled data by means of Case-Based-Reasoning (CBR) and perceptual weight tuning by means of active interactive Genetic Algorithms (aiGA). The aiGA-based weights are compared to multilinear regression (MLR) weights both considering classi-cal averaged cost function and its root-mean squared variant. The internal validation tests and the results of the evaluation campaing are described, and finally discussed.
Interspeech 2011
I3a language recognition system for albayzin 2010 LRE2002 •
This paper intends to be an initial proposal to promote research and development in language independent tools. The definition of a basic HLT toolkit is vital to allow the development of lesser-used languages. Which kind of public HLT products could be integrated, at the moment, in a basic toolkit portable for any language? We try to answer this question by examining the fifty items registered in the Natural Language Software Registry as language independent tools. We propose a toolkit having standard representation of ...
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2008 •
2008 •
Journal of The Brazilian Computer Society
Free tools and resources for Brazilian Portuguese speech recognition2011 •
2007 •
2011 •
2000 •
Proceedings of the IEEE
Spoken Language Recognition: From Fundamentals to Practice2000 •
2011 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding
Multi-site heterogeneous system fusions for the Albayzin 2010 Language Recognition Evaluation2019 •
Experimental Linguistics ExLing 2008
The effects of the acoustic properties of second language vowel production on pronunciation evaluation2008 •
International Journal of Speech Technology
Polish unit selection speech synthesis with BOSS: extensions and speech corpora2010 •
Speech Communication
On the issues of intra-speaker variability and realism in speech, speaker, and language recognition tasks2018 •
Communications in Computer and Information Science
Prosodic and phonetic features for speaking styles classification and detection2012 •
2010 •
Comput. Informatics
Development of the Slovak HMM-Based TTS System and Evaluation of Voices in Respect to the Used Vocoding Techniques2016 •
2012 •
Computer Speech & Language
Paralinguistics in speech and language—State-of-the-art and the challenge2013 •
Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
Towards automatic language processing and intonational labeling in European Portuguese2016 •
EMNLP 2011 DIALECTS2011Proceedings of the First Workshop on Algorithms andResources for Modelling of Dialects and Language Varieties
Phone set selection for HMM-based dialect speech synthesis2011 •
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
DIXI - A generic text-to-speech system for European Portuguese2008 •
ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing
An Overview of Indian Spoken Language Recognition from Machine Learning PerspectiveIEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing
Automatic Speech Recognition for UnderResourced Languages: Application to Vietnamese Language2009 •
Artificial Intelligence Review
A survey on structured discriminative spoken keyword spotting