Subject: Evaluation of Speaking Style Adaptation for Expressive Speech Synthesis From: Nicolas Obin <nobin@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:21:29 +0100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">[Apologizes for multiple cross-posting]</font> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><br> </font></div> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">Call for participation to the evaluation of speaking style adaptation for expressive speech synthesis</font></div> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><br> </font></div> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">This study aims at evaluating speaking style adaptation in speech synthesis.<br> <br> <i><u>Abstract</u></i>:<br> Each speaker has his own speaking style which constitutes his voice signature, and a part of his identity. <br> Nevertheless, a speaker continuously adapt his speaking style according to specific communication situations.<br> Or, each situational context determines a specific mode of production associated with it - <i>a genre</i> - which is defined by a set of conventions of form and content that is shared among all of its productions.<br> In particular, a specific discourse genre relate to a specific <i>speaking style</i>. <br> <br> The experiment is open to <u>anyone</u> and will be closed on <b>2011, February 1st</b>. <br> To process the experiment, please follow the link: <br> <br> <a href="http://recherche.ircam.fr/equipes/analyse-synthese/obin/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpeakingStyleAdaptation">http://recherche.ircam.fr/equipes/analyse-synthese/obin/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpeakingStyleAdaptation</a><br> </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><br> Thank you for your participation !!</font></div> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">----------------------------------------------</font></div> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><br> </font></div> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">If you are interested in following the most recent advances on<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"> synthesis and transformation of sound signals (music and speech) that is conducted in our team at IRCAM, </span> join the <i>IRCAM analysis & synthesis perceptual tests </i>group on </font><a href="http://fr-fr.facebook.com/group.php?gid=150354679034"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">facebook</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"> !</font></div> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><br> </font></div> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">IRCAM (Institute for music/acoustic research and coordination) is dedicated to research and contemporary music production, associated to the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.</span></font></div> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br> </span></font></div> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Nicolas OBIN.</span></font></div> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Nicolas OBIN: PhD Student at IRCAM Analysis/Synthesis Team - contact | <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nobin@xxxxxxxx">nobin@xxxxxxxx</a> - Tel : 33 (0) 1 44 78 48 90, Fax : 33 (0)1 44 78 15 40 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://recherche.ircam.fr/equipes/analyse-synthese/obin/">http://recherche.ircam.fr/equipes/analyse-synthese/obin/</a> </pre> </body> </html>