... prosodic structure for high quality Mandarin speechsynthesis , Proc. ICSLP Chou, F.C, Tseng, C.Y, Chen, K.J., Lee, L.S, 1997. “A Chinese text-to -speech system based on part-of -speech analysis, ... Mandarin text-to -speech synthesis. We select word format as target linguistic feature and propose an HMM-based approach to this issue. Then we define four states of prosodic positions for each word ... least, in Mandarin speech synthesis, we cannot derive the prosodic structure from POS sequence directly. By contrast, a word carries rich information related to phonetic feature. For example, in...
... desirable scheme is that the core selection procedure is based on local topology information, which let information easily gathered at each node. This core selection strategy is based on the ... networks maintain only approximate and minimal topology information, and therefore designing a center selection heuristics require more precise information than what is available. 3 The median of ... numbers are lower for the same group. Thus, for a certain group, a node will have only one entry in the list of its connections from a given neighbor, and it just keeps that information with the...
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... Speech is the primary means of communication between people. Speech synthesis, automatic generation of speech waveforms, has been under development for several decades. Recent progress in speech ... thesis is part of MICA speechsynthesis research and its main goal is to extract characteristics of Vietnamese prosody to generate the “prosody description” for speech synthesis. In this thesis, ... duration are required for the acoustic synthesis, all syllable-based models include some kind of mechanism for calculating segment duration from the unit syllable duration. For example, in Barbosa...
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... a single experiment for SVM. For MSE, the dashed and solid lines overlap. For LDA we could not compute the dashed line, for computational reasons. The baseline methodperforms slightly better ... composition and mentions “smoothmuscle” in its description ranks 5 for the baseline method, 4 for LDA, 1 for MSEand only 41 for SVM. Therefore, this is an indication that SVMs might make abetter use ... leave-one-out method to assess performance.The best leave-one-out performance is 100% accuracy for the SVMs (SVMclassifier trained on SVM genes) and only 90% for the baseline method (baselineclassifier...
... activity. This argues for a novel mechanism ofsubstrate selection which depends on two noncanonical residues. Data fromindividual and coordinated point mutations suggest a model for purinedefinition ... Rv0386(1)175)or its mutants weretransformed into E. coli BL21(DE3)[pRep4]. Proteinexpression was induced by 60 lm isopropyl-thio-b-D-gal-actoside for 3–5 h at 22 °C. Bacteria were washed ... at )80 °C. For purification cells from 200 to 600 mLculture were suspended in 25 mL of lysis buffer (50 mmTris ⁄ HCl, pH 8, 50 mm NaCl, 10 mm 2-mercaptoethanol),lysed by sonication for 30 s and...
... generalization in parameter estimation. An optimal model is se- lected by searching for an optimal set of features, i.e, optimal case dependencies and optimal noun class generalization levels. ... coverage and accuracy. As for the size of the optimal model, the average num- ber of the active feature set is 126 for "General- to-Specific" method and 800 for "One-by-one Feature ... shows the performance of subcategoriza- tion preference test described in section 4.2.2, for the approximately optimal models selected by the procedure in section 4.4 (the " ;Optimal& quot;...
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... actual synthesis of speech and hence describes only whatwould generate the input to our component.3 Incremental Speech Synthesis 3.1 Background on Speech Synthesis Text-to -speech (TTS) synthesis ... capabilitiesto speechsynthesis components for dealing with unitssmaller than full utterances can be beneficial for awhole range of interactive speech- based systems. Inthe easiest case, incremental synthesis ... IntroductionCurrent state of the art in speechsynthesisfor spokendialogue systems (SDSs) is for the synthesis com-ponent to expect full utterances (in textual form) asinput and to deliver an audio...
... Data point selection The key idea in our experiments is that we can use asimple form of instance weighting, similar to what isoften used for correcting sample selection bias or for domain adaptation, ... the Association for Computational Linguistics:shortpapers, pages 682–686,Portland, Oregon, June 19-24, 2011.c2011 Association for Computational LinguisticsData point selectionfor cross-language ... use the first letter in the common tag as coarse-grainedpart-of -speech, and the first three as fine-grained part-of -speech. pings for Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Por-tuguese and Swedish....
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