The Centre for Speech Technology Research, The university of Edinburgh

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

Funding Source

Edinburgh-Stanford link (Scottish Enterprise)