Deep submicron technology calls for new design techniques, in which wire and gate delays are accounted to have equal or nearly equal effect on circuit behaviour. Asynchronous spee...
Hiroshi Saito, Alex Kondratyev, Jordi Cortadella, ...
Virtual worlds are developing rapidly over the internet. They are visited by avatars and staffed with Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs). An avatar is a representation of a phys...
Facial emotions and expressive facial motions have become an intrinsic part of many graphics systems and human computer interaction applications. The dynamics and high dimensional...
This paper describes an open source voice creation toolkit that supports the creation of unit selection and HMM-based voices, for the MARY (Modular Architecture for Research on sp...
Although speech recognition technology and voice synthesis systems have become readily available, recognition accuracy remain a serious problem in the design and implementation of ...
Shuang Xu, Santosh Basapur, Mark Ahlenius, Deborah...