ISCA SALTMIL SIG: Speech and Language Technology for Minority Languages (2008)
Briony Williams, Kepa Sarasola, Climent Nadeu, Bojan Petek
This paper presents International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) Special Interest Group (SIG,
Levels of Annotation for a Welsh Speech Database for Phonetic Research (2008)
A Welsh speech database intended for use in phonetic research requires careful annotation at several linguistic levels. The initial stage is that of labelling at the acoustic phonetic level, where...
1. THE NEED FOR REGIONAL ACCENTS IN ENGLISH SPEECH SYNTHESIS (2008)
Briony Williams, Stephen Isard
Most English text-to-speech synthesisers offer one of only two accents: General American or RP. Developing a new accent is laborious, since it is not possible to choose one accent as a base form and...
Centre for Speech Technology Research, (2008)
ABSTRACT English sounds that had no equivalent in Welsh This work represents the first known attempt to develop a text-to-speech synthesiser for Welsh. A list of pseudo-Welsh nonsense words was...
Richard W. Sproat, Joseph P. Olive, Julia Hirschberg, Briony Williams
This is a weighty book in more senses than one. At nearly 600 pages (plus an ac-companying CD-ROM), it has the space to range very widely over the field of speech synthesis. The chapters comprise a...
Loneliness and Learning in Adolescents with Learning Disabilities: An Overview of the Issues. (2001)
Loneliness and Learning in Adolescents with Learning Disabilities: An Overview of the Issues. (2001)
Loneliness and Learning in Adolescents with Learning Disabilities: An Overview of the Issues. (2001)
Loneliness and Learning in Adolescents with Learning Disabilities: An Overview of the Issues. (2001)
A Welsh speech database: preliminary results. (1999)
A speech database for Welsh was recorded in a studio from read text by a few speakers. The purpose is to investigate the acoustic characteristics of Welsh speech sounds and prosody. It can also serve...
A Welsh speech database: preliminary results. (1999)
A speech database for Welsh was recorded in a studio from read text by a few speakers. The purpose is to investigate the acoustic characteristics of Welsh speech sounds and prosody. It can also serve...
Levels of Annotation for a Welsh Speech Database for Phonetic Research (1998)
A Welsh speech database intended for use in phonetic research requires careful annotation at several linguistic levels. The initial stage is that of labelling at the acoustic phonetic level, where...
Levels of Annotation for a Welsh Speech Database for Phonetic Research (1998)
A Welsh speech database intended for use in phonetic research requires careful annotation at several linguistic levels. The initial stage is that of labelling at the acoustic phonetic level, where...
Computer-Aided Learning and use of the Internet (1997)
Mark Huckvale, Chris Bowerman, Anders Eriksson, Mike Rosner, Mark Tatham, Briony Williams, ...
The working group in Computer-Aided Learning and Use of the Internet aims: • to bring together information about resources and tools for computer-aided learning (CAL) in the field
Computer-Aided Learning and use of the Internet (1997)
Mark Huckvale, Chris Bowerman, Anders Eriksson, Bernd Pompino-marschall, Mike Rosner, Mark Tatham, ...
The working group in Computer-Aided Learning and Use of the Internet aims: • to bring together information about resources and tools for computeraided
A Keyvowel Approach To The Synthesis Of Regional Accents Of English (1997)
Briony Williams, Stephen Isard
Most English text-to-speech synthesisers offer one of only two accents: General American or RP. Developing a new accent is laborious, since it is not possible to choose one accent as a base form and...
The Segmentation and Labelling of Speech Databases (1995)
Introduction Segmentation is the division of a speech file into non-overlapping sections corresponding to physical or linguistic units. Labelling is the assignment of physical or linguistic labels to...
Welsh letter-to-sound rules: rewrite rules and two-level rules compared (1994)
In a text-to-speech synthesis system, input words not found in the system's lexicon are passed to letter-to-sound rules, which derive the word's pronunciation. In Welsh, the letter-to-sound rules...
Welsh letter-to-sound rules: rewrite rules and two-level rules compared (1994)
In a text-to-speech synthesis system, input words not found in the system's lexicon are passed to letter-to-sound rules, which derive the word's pronunciation. In Welsh, the letter-to-sound rules...
The question of randomness in English foot timing: a control experiment (1994)
Isochrony has been considered only in terms of stressed syllables. However, it may also be a random property of unstressed syllables, and a control experiment was deemed necessary. A handtranscribed...
The question of randomness in English foot timing: a control experiment (1994)
Isochrony has been considered only in terms of stressed syllables. However, it may also be a random property of unstressed syllables, and a control experiment was deemed necessary. A handtranscribed...
Diphone Synthesis For Welsh (1994)
INTRODUCTION The Welsh language is one of the lesser-used and lesser-researched languages of Europe. This work represents the first known attempt at developing a speech synthesiser for Welsh. Because...
Criteria for Labelling Prosodic Aspects of English Speech (1992)
Bagshaw, Paul C, Williams, Briony
We report a set of labelling criteria which have been developed to label prosodic events in clear, continuous speech, and propose a scheme whereby this information can be transcribed in a machine...
Criteria for Labelling Prosodic Aspects of English Speech (1992)
Bagshaw, Paul C, Williams, Briony
We report a set of labelling criteria which have been developed to label prosodic events in clear, continuous speech, and propose a scheme whereby this information can be transcribed in a machine...
Analysis of Unknown Words through Morphological Decomposition (1991)
This paper describes a method of analysing words through morphological decomposition when the lexicon is incomplete. The method is used within a text-to-speech system to help generate pronunciations...