Alistair Conkie
2012
Building Text-To-Speech Voices in the Cloud
Alistair Conkie
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Thomas Okken
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Yeon-Jun Kim
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Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
The AT&T VoiceBuilder provides a new tool to researchers and practitioners who want to have their voices synthesized by a high-quality commercial-grade text-to-speech system without the need to install, configure, or manage speech processing software and equipment. It is implemented as a web service on the AT&T Speech Mashup Portal.The system records and validates users' utterances, processes them to build a synthetic voice and provides a web service API to make the voice available to real-time applications through a scalable cloud-based processing platform. All the procedures are automated to avoid human intervention. We present experimental comparisons of voices built using the system.
2011
Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010: Comparison of Live and Control Test Results
Alan W Black
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Susanne Burger
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Alistair Conkie
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Helen Hastie
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Simon Keizer
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Oliver Lemon
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Nicolas Merigaud
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Gabriel Parent
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Gabriel Schubiner
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Blaise Thomson
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Jason D. Williams
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Kai Yu
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Steve Young
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Maxine Eskenazi
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011 Conference