Annual team meeting 8-9 June

Programme Keynote speaker : Laurent Amsaleg (IRISA/CNRS, team LinkMedia, “multidimensional indexing and search by similarity: large scale, speech, quality”. Speakers : Pamela Carreno, Antoine Perquin, Raheel Qader, Aghilas Sini, Cédric Fayet, Rémy Kessler, Ahmad Alaa Eddine, Stefania Pecòre. Demo : Claude Simon, Damien Lolive.

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PhD defense : Raheel Qader: Pronunciation and disfluency modeling for expressive speech synthesis, 31st March, 2017.

In this thesis, we address the problem of expressivity in Text-To-Speech (TTS) by incorporating two phenomena with a high impact on speech: pronunciation variants and speech disfluencies. In the first part of this thesis, we present a pronunciation variant generation method which works by adapting standard, i.e., dictionary-based, pronunciations to…

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