Expressions
Project Summary
Expressions aims to improve the quality of prosody and intonation for unit selection speech synthesis.
Project Details
This project, in conjunction with Stanford University, is working to improve both the prediction and realisation of prosody for unit selection speech synthesis. Prediction looks at the issues of emphasis assignment, function word pronunciation, phrasing and pitch range. Realisation is concerned with ensuring that the resulting synthetic speech is receives an appropriate pitch contour.
Personnel
- Simon King
- Rob Clark
- Dan Jurafsky (Stanford)
Funding Source
Edinburgh-Stanford link (Scottish Enterprise)