ProSynth An Integrated Prosodic Approach to Device-Independent Natural-Sounding Speech Synthesis

Papers

• ICSLP 98. (Provides an overview of the key features of the research.)
  • Hawkins, House, Huckvale, Local & Ogden: Prosynth: An Integrated Prosodic Approach to Device-Independent, Natural-Sounding Speech Synthesis. (PDF version)

  • Hawkins, House, Huckvale, Local & Ogden: Prosynth: An Integrated Prosodic Approach to Device-Independent, Natural-Sounding Speech Synthesis. (HTML version)

   

• 3rd ESCA/COCOSDA International Workshop on Speech Synthesis (1998)
  • Heid and Hawkins: Hybrid approach to high-quality formant synthesis using HLsyn. (abstract)

  • Heid and Hawkins: Hybrid approach to high-quality formant synthesis using HLsyn. (PostScript version)
    PDF version.

   

• XIVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (1999)
  • Heid and Hawkins: Synthesizing Systematic Variation At Boundaries Between Vowels and Obstruents. (PostScript version)
    PDF version.
  • House, Dankovicova and Huckvale: Intonation modelling in ProSynth: an integrated prosodic approach to speech synthesis. (PDF version)
    More details in a poster.
  • Ogden, Local and Carter: Temporal Interpretation in ProSynth, a prosodic speech synthesis system. (PDF version)

   

• EuroSpeech 99, Budapest.
  Huckvale: Representation and processing of linguistic structures for an all-prosodic synthesis system using XML. (PDF version)
  

   

• PROCSY,a hybrid method of automatically producing natural-sounding formant-based synthetic speech.

  PROCSY papers:

  • Heid and Hawkins (1999: in press): PROCSY,a hybrid approach to high quality formant synthesis using Hlsyn. (PostScript version)
    PDF version.
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  • Heid and Hawkins (1998). (PostScript version)
    PDF version.

Reports

• Report on perceptual evaluation

• Report on resonance effect research

• Report on phonological structure and temporal modelling