8 accepted papers
Silent Speech Interfaces (SSIs) are systems developed to reconstruct speech based on non-acoustic bio-signals generated by brain, muscular or articulatory activity. A broad variety of sensing methods have been employed in SSIs, but determining a single optimal sensor configuration is generally a cha…
Silent speech interfaces (SSIs) are systems that can enable speech communication in the partial or total absence of the acoustic speech signal. The research on SSIs includes command word recognition, speech synthesis and continuous phoneme/word recognition. The focus of this work is to perform conti…
Recent advances in deep learning have significantly improved the quality of speech synthesis, yet these models often suffer from limited controllability and lack of interpretability due to their black-box nature. In contrast, articulatory speech synthesis offers fine-grained control and transparency…
This study explored how the frequencies and bandwidths of the acoustic resonances of physical tube models of the vocal tract differ when they have hard versus soft walls. For each of 10 tube shapes representing different vowels, two physical models were made: one with rigid plastic walls, and one wi…
This paper presents the semi-automatically created Corpus of Aligned Read Speech Including Annotations (CARInA), a speech corpus based on the German Spoken Wikipedia Corpus (GSWC). CARInA tokenizes, consolidates and organizes the vast, but rather unstructured material contained in GSWC. The contents…
Intonation models are often used for the generation of fundamental frequency (f <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">0</sub> ) contours in speech synthesis. Current intonation models only represent the intentional f <sub xmlns:mml="http://www…
Speech recognition based on articulatory movements instead of the acoustic signal is of growing interest in the community. In this work, we present the results of a study using a novel measurement technology called Electro-Optical Stomatography to capture speech movements and use the acquired data t…
Articulation-to-speech synthesis based solely on supraglottal articulation requires some sort of intonation control. This paper examines to what extent the f <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">0</sub> contour of an utterance can be predicte…