As a computational model of natural language communication, Database Semantics1 (DBS) includes a hearer mode and a speaker mode. For the content to be mapped into language expressi...
This paper describes a source modeling method for hidden Markov model (HMM) based speech synthesis for improved naturalness. A speech corpus is rst decomposed into the glottal sou...
Tuomo Raitio, Antti Suni, Hannu Pulakka, Martti Va...
One of the fundamental building blocks of text processing for textto-speech (TTS) synthesis is the assignment of a part-of-speech (POS) tag to each input word. POS tags are heavil...
Abstract—Memetics is a new science that has attracted increasing attentions in the recent decades. Beyond the formalism of simple hybrids, adaptive hybrids and memetic algorithms...
We present an extension to the Lasso [9] for binary classification problems with ordered attributes. Inspired by the Fused Lasso [8] and the Group Lasso [10, 4] models, we aim to...