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Article: A Deep Learning Approach to Data-driven Parameterizations for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Nearly all Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesizers today use Mel Cepstral coefficients as the vocal tract parameterization of the speech signal. Mel Cepstral coefficients were never intended to work in a parametric speech synthesis framework, but as yet, there has been little success in creating a better parameterization that is more suited to synthesis. In this paper, we use deep learning algorithms to investigate a data-driven parameterization technique that is designed for the specific requirements of synthesis. We create an invertible, low-dimensional, noise-robust encoding of the Mel Log Spectrum by training a tapered Stacked Denoising Autoencoder (SDA). This SDA is then unwrapped and used as the initialization for a Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP). The MLP is fine-tuned by training it to reconstruct the input at the output layer. This MLP is then split down the middle to form encoding and decoding networks. These networks produce a parameterization of the Mel Log Spectrum that is intended to better fulfill the requirements of synthesis. Results are reported for experiments conducted using this resulting parameterization with the ClusterGen speech synthesizer.
Conference Paper: Automatic discovery of a phonetic inventory for unwritten languages for statistical speech synthesis[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Speech synthesis systems are typically built with speech data and transcriptions. In this paper, we try to build synthesis systems when no transcriptions or knowledge about the language are available. It is usually necessary to at least possess phonetic knowledge about the language. In this paper, we propose an automated way of obtaining phones and phonetic knowledge about the corpus at hand by making use of Articulatory Features (AFs). An Articulatory Feature predictor is trained on a bootstrap corpus in an arbitrary other language using a three-hidden layer neural network. This neural network is run on the speech corpus to extract AFs. Hierarchical clustering is used to cluster the AFs into categories i.e. phones. Phonetic information about each of these inferred phones is obtained by computing the mean of the AFs in each cluster. Results of systems built with this framework in multiple languages are reported.ICASSP 2014 - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP); 05/2014
Article: Data-driven intonational phonology.[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Intonational Phonology deals with the systematic way in which speakers effectively use pitch to add appropriate emphasis to the underlying string of words in an utterance. Two widely discussed aspects of pitch are the pitch accents and boundary events. These provide an insight into the sentence type, speaker attitude, linguistic background, and other aspects of prosodic form. The main hurdle, however, is the difficulty in getting annotations of these attributes in "real" speech. Besides being language independent, these attributes are known to be subjective and prone to high inter-annotator disagreements. Our investigations aim to automatically derive phonological aspects of intonation from large speech databases. Recurring and salient patterns in the pitch contours, observed jointly with an underlying linguistic context are automatically detected. Our computational framework unifies complementary paradigms such as the physiological Fujisaki model, Autosegmental Metrical phonology, and elegant pitch stylization, to automatically (i) discover phonologically atomic units to describe the pitch contours and (ii) build inventories of tones and long term trends appropriate for the given speech database, either large multi-speaker or single speaker databases, such as audiobooks. We successfully demonstrate the framework in expressive speech synthesis. There is also immense potential for the approach in speaker, style, and language characterization.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 11/2013; 134(5):4237. DOI:10.1121/1.4831574 · 1.56 Impact Factor
Conference Paper: Accent Group modeling for improved prosody in statistical parameteric speech synthesis[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: This paper presents an 'Accent Group' based intonation model for statistical parametric speech synthesis. We propose an approach to automatically model phonetic realizations of fundamental frequency(F0) contours as a sequence of intonational events anchored to a group of syllables (an Accent Group). We train an accent grouping model specific to that of the speaker, using a stochastic context free grammar and contextual decision trees on the syllables. This model is used to 'parse' an unseen text into its constituent accent groups over each of which appropriate intonation is predicted. The performance of the model is shown objectively and subjectively on a variety of prosodically diverse tasks- read speech, news broadcast and audio books.Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2013 IEEE International Conference on; 01/2013
Conference Paper: A style capturing approach to F0 transformation in voice conversion[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: In this paper, we present a new approach to F0 transformation, that can capture aspects of speaking style. Instead of using the traditional 5ms frames as units in transformation, we propose a method that looks at longer phonological regions such as metrical feet. We automatically detect metrical feet in the source speech, and for each of source speaker's feet, we find its phonological correspondence in target speech. We use a statistical phrase accent model to represent the F0 contour, where a 4-dimensional TILT representation is used for the F0 is parameterized over each feet region for the source and target speakers. This forms the parallel data that is the training data for our transformation. We transform the phrase component using simple z-score mapping. We use a joint density Gaussian mixture model to transform the accent contours. Our transformation method generates F0 contours that are significantly more correlated with the target speech than a baseline, frame-based method.Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2013 IEEE International Conference on; 01/2013
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ABSTRACT: In this paper, we present a technique to use the information in multiple parallel speech streams, which are approximate translations of each other, in order to improve performance in a punctuation recovery task. We first build a phraselevel alignment of these multiple streams, using phrase tables to link the phrase pairs together. The information so collected is then used to make it more likely that sentence units are equivalent across streams. We applied this technique to a number of simultaneously interpreted speeches of the European Parliament Committees, for the recovery of the full stop, in four different languages (English, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish). We observed an average improvement in SER of 37% when compared to an existing baseline, in Portuguese and English.Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), 2013 IEEE Workshop on; 01/2013
Article: Dialog State Tracking Challenge
Conference Paper: Analysis and modeling of" focus" in context.INTERSPEECH; 01/2013
Conference Paper: Text-To-Speech for Languages without an OrthographyProceedings of COLING 2012: Posters; 12/2012
Conference Paper: Future directions in spoken dialog systems: a community of possibilities[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: A spoken dialog system consists of a number of non-trivially interacting components. In order to allow new students, researchers and developers to meaningfully and relatively rapidly enter the field it is critical that, despite their complexity, the resources be accessible and easy to use. Everyone should be able to start building new technologies without spending a significant amount of time re-inventing the wheel. There are four levels of support that we believe new entrants should have. 1) A flexible open source system that runs on many different operating systems, is well documented and supports both simple and complex dialog systems. 2) Logs and speech files from a large number of dialogs that enable analysis and training of new systems and techniques. 3) An actual set of real users that speak to the system on a regular basis. 4) The ability to run studies on complete real user platforms.NAACL-HLT Workshop on Future Directions and Needs in the Spoken Dialog Community: Tools and Data; 06/2012
Conference Paper: Intent transfer in speech-to-speech machine translation[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: This paper presents an approach for transfer of speaker intent in speech-to-speech machine translation (S2SMT). Specifically, we describe techniques to retain the prominence patterns of the source language utterance through the translation pipeline and impose this information during speech synthesis in the target language. We first present an analysis of word focus across languages to motivate the problem of transfer. We then propose an approach for training an appropriate transfer function for intonation on a parallel speech corpus in the two languages within which the translation is carried out. We present our analysis and experiments on English↔Portuguese and English↔German language pairs and evaluate the proposed transformation techniques through objective measures.Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), 2012 IEEE; 01/2012
Conference Paper: Articulatory features for expressive speech synthesis[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: This paper describes some of the results from the project entitled "New Parameterization for Emotional Speech Synthesis" held at the Summer 2011 JHU CLSP workshop. We describe experiments on how to use articulatory features as a meaningful intermediate representation for speech synthesis. This parameterization not only allows us to reproduce natural sounding speech but also allows us to generate stylistically varying speech.Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2012 IEEE International Conference on; 01/2012
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ABSTRACT: One of the issues in using audio books for building a synthetic voice is the segmentation of large speech files. The use of the Viterbi algorithm to obtain phone boundaries on large audio files fails primarily because of huge memory requirements. Earlier works have attempted to resolve this problem by using large vocabulary speech recognition system employing restricted dictionary and language model. In this paper, we propose suitable modifications to the Viterbi algorithm and demonstrate its usefulness for segmentation of large speech files in audio books. The utterances obtained from large speech files in audio books are used to build synthetic voices. We show that synthetic voices built from audio books in the public domain have Mel-cepstral distortion scores in the range of 4-7, which is similar to voices built from studio quality recordings such as CMU ARCTIC.IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing 08/2011; 19(5-19):1444 - 1449. DOI:10.1109/TASL.2010.2081980 · 2.63 Impact Factor
Conference Paper: A Review of Personality in Voice-Based Man Machine Interaction.[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: In this paper, we will discuss state-of-the-art techniques for personality-aware user interfaces, and summarize recent work in automatically recognizing and synthesizing speech with "personality". We present an overview of personality "metrics", and show how they can be applied to the perception of voices, not only the description of personally known individuals. We present use cases for personality-aware speech input and/ or output, and discuss approaches at defining "personality" in this context. We take a middle-of-the-road approach, i.e. we will not try to uncover all fundamental aspects of personality in speech, but we'll also not aim for ad-hoc solutions that serve a single purpose, for example to create a positive attitude in a user, but do not generate transferable knowledge for other interfaces.Human-Computer Interaction. Interaction Techniques and Environments - 14th International Conference, HCI International 2011, Orlando, FL, USA, July 9-14, 2011, Proceedings, Part II; 01/2011
Conference Paper: Using Speaker ID to Discover Repeat Callers of a Spoken Dialog System.INTERSPEECH 2011, 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Florence, Italy, August 27-31, 2011; 01/2011
- IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing 01/2011; 19:1444-1449. · 2.63 Impact Factor
Conference Paper: A Grammar Based Approach to Style Specific Phrase Prediction.INTERSPEECH 2011, 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Florence, Italy, August 27-31, 2011; 01/2011
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ABSTRACT: The Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010 was an exercise to investigate how different spoken dialog systems perform on the same task. The existing Let's Go Pittsburgh Bus Information System was used as a task and four teams provided systems that were first tested in controlled conditions with speech researchers as users. The three most stable systems were then deployed to real callers. This paper presents the results of the live tests, and compares them with the control test results. Results show considerable variation both between systems and between the control and live tests. Interestingly, relatively high task completion for controlled tests did not always predict relatively high task completion for live tests. Moreover, even though the systems were quite different in their designs, we saw very similar correlations between word error rate and task completion for all the systems. The dialog data collected is available to the research community.Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011 Conference, The 12th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, June 17-18, 2011, Oregon Science & Health University, Portland, Oregon, USA; 01/2011
Conference Paper: A Statistical Phrase/Accent Model for Intonation Modeling.INTERSPEECH 2011, 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Florence, Italy, August 27-31, 2011; 01/2011
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ABSTRACT: We present the PICTOR browser, a visualization designed to facilitate the analysis of quotations about user-specified topics in large collections of news text. PICTOR focuses on quotations because they are a major vehicle of communication in the news genre. It extracts quotes from articles that match a user's text query, and groups these quotes into "threads" that illustrate the development of subtopics over time. It allows users to rapidly explore the space of relevant quotes by viewing their content and speakers, to examine the contexts in which quotes appear, and to tune how threads are constructed. We offer two case studies demonstrating how PICTOR can support a richer understanding of news events.
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Question: I've been fortunate to have put a bit of money into a gold ETF (GLD, for the record), one of the ones that actually just buys bullion,...
Virginia offers tax break for hurricane preparedness
May 30, 2011
Virginia says consumers can save up to $2.5 million in taxes buying generators, duct tape and other emergency gear. Critics say residents would've bought these supplies anyway.
Illinois citizens feel squeezed by state tax hikes
May 27, 2011
Illinois is trying to decrease its $13 billion deficit with tax increases. One citizen understands the need to close the deficit, but says the taxes have pinched her budget significantly.
New York state nears deal to cap property tax
May 26, 2011
With among the highest property taxes in the country, New York aims to limit annual increases but also accommodate school districts.
Chicagoans wonder if tax money is being flushed down the toilet
May 23, 2011
Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel will look at whether special tax funds for blighted neighborhoods are diverted too often to big companies.
States collect more taxes than expected
May 17, 2011
Tax revenues are topping projections in California, New Jersey, West Virginia and others.
Business tax increase could push Sears out of Illinois
May 11, 2011
Because of Illinois' business tax increase, Sears has become the latest company to threaten to leave the state. The increase has backfired big time on the governor, who's scrambling to make deals to keep major companies from leaving the state.
White House floats driving tax
May 9, 2011
The per-gallon gas tax is not enough to pay for road repairs. The Obama administration is exploring a new funding scheme.
Boston tries asking nicely for more taxes
Apr 25, 2011
The city is asking tax-exempt institutions like universities and hospitals to voluntarily pay more property taxes. Please.
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Thread: Onema painting
September 5th, 2003 #1
Onema painting
I sat down last night and wanted to see if I can increase my speed painting... this one took me 3 hours in painter, and could probably use some more work... please tell me what you think.
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Last edited by skrubbles; September 8th, 2003 at 03:36 AM.
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Nice work. Kinda got the Hale/Foster dynamic going on.
post the sketch.
September 5th, 2003 #3
wow, thank you
Last edited by skrubbles; September 6th, 2003 at 09:47 PM.
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September 5th, 2003 #5Originally posted by jerO
Nice work. Kinda got the Hale/Foster dynamic going on.
post the sketch.
very good skrubbles. I think you could push it some more tho.
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Hey nice work there skrubbles! I like the colors you've used in there.
jerO, check by his daily sketchbook, too
September 5th, 2003 #7
awesome! Im liking the strokes, and it definetly has a foster feel.
September 6th, 2003 #8
Thank you very much guys. If you're interested you can check on the progession of this painting HERE
September 6th, 2003 #9
Good stuff skrubbles ,,,
.. and as egerie said- I think you could push it some more.
September 8th, 2003 #10
Great sense of action
Finishing it further in some areas (face?) may help but watch out not to break the action and the dynamic quality!
Power is nothing without intelligence.
September 8th, 2003 #11
It's not perfect, but I don't think I'll get around to putting more time into it... I know there are some places that need work (like the guns and the pants)... other areas that are kinda gritty I left as is because I liked the feel of it.. as for the overall painting I know I could have done better and I was talking to jrr in chat the other day about technique and I'm all geared up for my next painting.


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