Essays about: "Text-to-Speech Synthesis"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Text-to-Speech Synthesis.

  1. 1. Evaluation of how text-to-speech can be adapted for the specific purpose of being an AI psychologist

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Pooya Rayat; Hugo Westergård; [2023]
    Keywords : Text-to-Speech Synthesis; AI Psychologist; Voice Traits; Conditional Speech Synthesis; Economic Impact of TTS Technolog;

    Abstract : In this research, our goal was to pinpoint the crucial characteristics that make a voice suitable for an AI psychologist. More importantly, we wanted to explore how Text-To-Speech (TTS) combined with conditional voice controlling, also known as ”prompting”, could be used to incorporate these traits into the voice generation process. READ MORE

  3. 2. Automatic Annotation of Speech: Exploring Boundaries within Forced Alignment for Swedish and Norwegian

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Klaudia Biczysko; [2022]
    Keywords : forced alignment; automatic speech recognition; ASR; natural language processing; under-resourced languages; Swedish; Norwegian; CTC segmentation; wav2vec2; kaldi; HTK; dynamic time warping;

    Abstract : In Automatic Speech Recognition, there is an extensive need for time-aligned data. Manual speech segmentation has been shown to be more laborious than manual transcription, especially when dealing with tens of hours of speech. READ MORE

  4. 3. SPEECH SYNTHESIS AND RECOGNITION FOR A LOW-RESOURCE LANGUAGE Connecting TTS and ASR for mutual benefit

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori

    Author : Liliia Makashova; [2021-09-23]
    Keywords : Speech synthesis; automatic speech recognition; low-resource language; machine learning; transfer learning;

    Abstract : Speech synthesis (text-to-speech, TTS) and speech recognition (automatic speech recognition, ASR) are the NLP technologies that are the least available for low-resource and indigenous languages. Lack of computational and data resources is the major obstacle when it comes to the development of linguistic tools for these languages. READ MORE

  5. 4. Improving user trust towards conversational chatbot interfaces with voice output

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Ramón Burri; [2018]
    Keywords : Chatbot; Conversational interface; Human-computer trust; Speech synthesis; Trust; Voice;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the impact of the voice modality on user trust in conversational chatbot interfaces. The assumption is that trust can be increased by adding voice output to a chatbot and by a higher quality of a used text-to-speech synthesis. READ MORE

  6. 5. Artificial Neural Networks in Swedish Speech Synthesis

    University essay from KTH/Tal-kommunikation

    Author : Per Näslund; [2018]
    Keywords : Speech Synthesis; neural; LSTM; Speech Technology; Tacotron; Attention; CNN; Neural Networks; RNN;

    Abstract : Text-to-speech (TTS) systems have entered our daily lives in the form of smart assistants and many other applications. Contemporary re- search applies machine learning and artificial neural networks (ANNs) to synthesize speech. It has been shown that these systems outperform the older concatenative and parametric methods. READ MORE