Essays about: "text-to-speech"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 28 essays containing the word text-to-speech.

1. 1. Investigating reading comprehension in Reading While Listening and the relevancy of The Voice Effect

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

   Author : Edvin Hedenström; Axel Barck-Holst; [2023]
   Keywords : RWL; Reading-while-listening; Multimedia learning; Multimodal Learning; TTS; text-to-speech; reading comprehension;

   Abstract : Various forms of multimedia learning have been shown to aid learners time and time again. One form of multimedia learning that has not been thoroughly studied is reading while listening (RWL). This is especially the case when it comes to the immediate impacts on reading comprehension from practising RWL. READ MORE

3. 2. Identification and Classification of TTS Intelligibility Errors Using ASR : A Method for Automatic Evaluation of Speech Intelligibility

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

   Author : Erik Henriksson; [2023]
   Keywords : Automatic Speech Recognition; Natural Language Processing; Speech Technology; Speech Quality Assessment; Text-To-Speech; Taligenkänning; Språkteknologi; Talkvalitetsbedömning; Talsyntes;

   Abstract : In recent years, applications using synthesized speech have become more numerous and publicly available. As the area grows, so does the need for delivering high-quality, intelligible speech, and subsequently the need for effective methods of assessing the intelligibility of synthesized speech. READ MORE

4. 3. Text Normalization for Text-to-Speech

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

   Author : Zhaorui Zhang; [2023]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : Text normalization plays a crucial role in text-to-speech systems by ensuring that the input text is in an appropriate format and consists of standardized words prior to grapheme-to-phoneme conversion for text-to-speech. The aim of this study was to assess the performance of five text normalization systems based on different methods. READ MORE

5. 4. Diffusion-based Vocoding for Real-Time Text-To-Speech

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Matematisk statistik

   Author : Lukas Gardberg; [2023]
   Keywords : Diffusion; Vocoding; Text-to-Speech; Machine Learning; Mathematics and Statistics;

   Abstract : The emergence of machine learning based text-to-speech systems have made fully automated customer service voice calls, spoken personal assistants, and the creation of synthetic voices seem well within reach. However, there are still many technical challenges with creating such a system which can generate audio quickly and of high enough quality. READ MORE

6. 5. Disambiguating Italian homographic heterophones with SoundChoice and testing ChatGPT as a data-generating tool

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

   Author : Matilde Nanni; [2023]
   Keywords : ChatGPT; Homograph disambiguation; Italian; SoundChoice;

   Abstract : Text-To-Speech systems are challenged by the presence of homographs, words that have more than one possible pronunciation. Rule-based approaches are often still the preferred solution to this issue in the industry. READ MORE