This paper proposes a new prosodic phrasing model for Chinese text-tospeech systems. First, in contrast to the commonly used CART techniques, we propose a new inductive learning a...
Verbmobil is a long-term project on the translation of spontaneous language in negotiation dialogs. We describe the goals of the project, the chosen discourse domains and the init...
This study aims at providing an empirical basis for the evaluation of predictions made by metrical phonology. The predictions are compared to perceptual syllable prominence annota...
Abstract. We propose a semantic tagger that provides high level concept information for phrases in clinical documents. It delineates such information from the statements written by...
This paper presents a method for adapting a language generator to the strengths and weaknesses of a synthetic voice, thereby improving the naturalness of synthetic speech in a spo...