Essays about: "Text-to-speech"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 28 essays containing the word Text-to-speech.

1. 11. Evaluating Multi-Uav System with Text to Spech for Sitational Awarness and Workload

   University essay from Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för innovation, design och teknik

   Author : Viktor Lindgren; [2021]
   Keywords : Text to Speech; TTS; UAV; Drone; Unmanned Aerial Vehicle; SAGAT; NASA-TLX; Workload; Situational Awarness;

   Abstract : With improvements to miniaturization technologies, the ratio between operators required per UAV has become increasingly smaller at the cost of increased workload. Workload is an important factor to consider when designing the multi-UAV systems of tomorrow as too much workload may decrease an operator's performance. READ MORE

3. 12. Homograph Disambiguation and Diacritization for Arabic Text-to-Speech Using Neural Networks

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

   Author : Harm Lameris; [2021]
   Keywords : Computational Linguistics; Language Technology; Diacritization; Neural Networks; Deep Learning; Arabic; Natural Language Processing; NLP; Text-to-Speech; TTS; Homograph Disambiguation;

   Abstract : Pre-processing Arabic text for Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems poses major challenges, as Arabic omits short vowels in writing. This omission leads to a large number of homographs, and means that Arabic text needs to be diacritized to disambiguate these homographs, in order to be matched up with the intended pronunciation. READ MORE

4. 13. Grapheme-to-phoneme transcription of English words in Icelandic text

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

   Author : Bjarki Ármannsson; [2021]
   Keywords : Foreign word grapheme-to-phoneme transcription; TTS; text-to-speech; Icelandic; Icelandic phonology; g2p; foreign word g2p;

   Abstract : Foreign words, such as names, locations or sometimes entire phrases, are a problem for any system that is meant to convert graphemes to phonemes (g2p; i.e.converting written text into phonetic transcription). READ MORE

5. 14. Text and Speech Alignment Methods for Speech Translation Corpora Creation : Augmenting English LibriVox Recordings with Italian Textual Translations

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

   Author : Giuseppe Della Corte; [2020]
   Keywords : speech translation; parallel corpora; bilingual sentence alignment; sentence embeddings; cosine similarity; forced alignment; text collection; corpora creation; audio signal processing;

   Abstract : The recent uprise of end-to-end speech translation models requires a new generation of parallel corpora, composed of a large amount of source language speech utterances aligned with their target language textual translations. We hereby show a pipeline and a set of methods to collect hundreds of hours of English audio-book recordings and align them with their Italian textual translations, using exclusively public domain resources gathered semi-automatically from the web. READ MORE

6. 15. Teachers’ beliefs on utilizing TTS as a tool for learning English at Upper Secondary School

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS)

   Author : Jonathon Stoker; [2019]
   Keywords : TTS; struggling readers; dyslexia;

   Abstract : There are many students in the class that have dyslexia and can struggle with simple tasks such as reading. Therefore, this study set out to investigate the applications of text to speech synthesizers facilitate learning English at upper secondary with these students in focus from a teacher’s perspective. READ MORE