{"id":989,"date":"2017-03-22T14:05:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T13:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www-expression.irisa.fr\/?p=989"},"modified":"2017-04-10T14:09:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T12:09:23","slug":"phd-defense-raheel-qader-pronunciation-and-disfluency-modeling-for-expressive-speech-synthesis-31st-march-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www-expression.irisa.fr\/fr\/phd-defense-raheel-qader-pronunciation-and-disfluency-modeling-for-expressive-speech-synthesis-31st-march-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD defense : Raheel Qader: Pronunciation and disfluency modeling for expressive speech synthesis, 31st March, 2017."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-fr\">D\u00e9sol\u00e9, cet article est seulement disponible en <a href=\"https:\/\/www-expression.irisa.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\" class=\"qtranxs-available-language-link qtranxs-available-language-link-en\" title=\"English\">English<\/a>.<\/p><p>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 a spontaneous style. Its strength lies in exploiting a wide range of linguistic, articulatory and acoustic features and to use a probabilistic machine earning framework, namely conditional random fields (CRFs) and language models. The second part of the thesis explores a new approach to automatic generation of speech disfluencies for TTS. The proposed approach provides the advantage of generating several types of disfluencies: pauses, repetitions and revisions. To achieve this task, we formalize the problem as a theoretical process, where transformation functions are iteratively composed to insert disfluencies. We present a first implementation of the proposed process using CRFs and language models.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D\u00e9sol\u00e9, cet article est seulement disponible en English.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\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www-expression.irisa.fr\/fr\/phd-defense-raheel-qader-pronunciation-and-disfluency-modeling-for-expressive-speech-synthesis-31st-march-2017\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":935,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talkdemo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-expression.irisa.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-expression.irisa.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-expression.irisa.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-expression.irisa.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/935"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-expression.irisa.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www-expression.irisa.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":991,"href":"https:\/\/www-expression.irisa.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions\/991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-expression.irisa.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-expression.irisa.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-expression.irisa.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}