Ann K. Syrdal

According to our database, Ann K. Syrdal authored at least 33 papers between 1985 and 2013.

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2013

Prosodically modifying speech for unit selection speech synthesis databases.

Ladan Golipour, Alistair Conkie, Ann K. Syrdal

Proceedings of the Eighth ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2013

2012

Text-To-Speech Intelligibility Across Speech Rates.

Ann K. Syrdal, H. Timothy Bunnell, Susan R. Hertz, Taniya Mishra, Murray F. Spiegel, Corine A. Bickley, Deborah Rekart, Matthew J. Makashay

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2012, 2012

2011

Enriching Text-to-Speech Synthesis Using Automatic Dialog Act Tags.

Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie, Srinivas Bangalore

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2011, 2011

Using F0 to constrain the unit selection Viterbi network.

Alistair Conkie, Ann K. Syrdal

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2011

On the intelligibility of fast synthesized speech for individuals with early-onset blindness.

Amanda Stent, Ann K. Syrdal, Taniya Mishra

Proceedings of the 13th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2011

2010

Speech acts and dialog TTS.

Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie, Yeon-Jun Kim, Mark C. Beutnagel

Proceedings of the Seventh ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2010

Composite TTS voices.

Alistair Conkie, Ann K. Syrdal

Proceedings of the Seventh ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2010

2008

Improving preselection in unit selection synthesis.

Alistair Conkie, Ann K. Syrdal, Yeon-Jun Kim, Marc C. Beutnagel

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2008, 2008

2006

Six approaches to limited domain concatenative speech synthesis.

Robert J. Utama, Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2006, 2006

Phonetically enriched labeling in unit selection TTS synthesis.

Yeon-Jun Kim, Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie, Marc C. Beutnagel

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2006, 2006

Expanding phonetic coverage in unit selection synthesis through unit substitution from a donor voice.

Alistair Conkie, Ann K. Syrdal

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2006, 2006

2005

Perceptually-based data-driven join costs: comparing join types.

Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2005, 2005

2004

Data-driven perceptually based join costs.

Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie

Proceedings of the Fifth ISCA ITRW on Speech Synthesis, 2004

Improving TTS by higher agreement between predicted versus observed pronunciations.

Yeon-Jun Kim, Ann K. Syrdal, Matthias Jilka

Proceedings of the Fifth ISCA ITRW on Speech Synthesis, 2004

Pronunciation lexicon adaptation for TTS voice building.

Yeon-Jun Kim, Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2004, 2004

2002

The AT&t German text-to-speech system: realistic linguistic description.

Matthias Jilka, Ann K. Syrdal

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP2002, 2002

Expressive speech synthesis using a concatenative synthesizer.

Murtaza Bulut, Shrikanth S. Narayanan, Ann K. Syrdal

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP2002, 2002

2001

Automatic ToBI prediction and alignment to speed manual labeling of prosody.

Ann K. Syrdal, Julia Hirschberg, Julie Tevis McGory, Mary E. Beckman

Speech Commun., 2001

Phonetic effects on listener detection of vowel concatenation.

Ann K. Syrdal

Proceedings of the EUROSPEECH 2001 Scandinavia, 2001

Voice-IF: a mixed-initiative spoken dialogue system for AT&t conference services.

Mazin G. Rahim, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Candace A. Kamm, Marilyn A. Walker, A. Pokrovsky, P. Ruscitti, Esther Levin, Sungbok Lee, Ann K. Syrdal, K. Schlosser

Proceedings of the EUROSPEECH 2001 Scandinavia, 2001

Perceptual and objective detection of discontinuities in concatenative speech synthesis.

Yannis Stylianou, Ann K. Syrdal

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2001

2000

Perceptually based automatic prosody labeling and prosodically enriched unit selection improve concatenative text-to-speech synthesis.

Colin W. Wightman, Ann K. Syrdal, Georg Stemmer, Alistair Conkie, Mark C. Beutnagel

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2000

Corpus-based techniques in the AT&t nextgen synthesis system.

Ann K. Syrdal, Colin W. Wightman, Alistair Conkie, Yannis Stylianou, Marc C. Beutnagel, Juergen Schroeter, Volker Strom, Ki-Seung Lee, Matthew J. Makashay

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2000

Inter-transcriber reliability of toBI prosodic labeling.

Ann K. Syrdal, Julia Tevis McGory

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2000

Preselection of candidate units in a unit selection-based text-to-speech synthesis system.

Alistair Conkie, Mark C. Beutnagel, Ann K. Syrdal, Philip E. Brown

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2000

Multimodal Speech Synthesis.

Juergen Schroeter, Jörn Ostermann, Hans Peter Graf, Marc C. Beutnagel, Eric Cosatto, Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie, Yannis Stylianou

Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2000

1998

An evaluation of the diagnostic rhyme test.

Steven L. Greenspan, Raymond W. Bennett, Ann K. Syrdal

Int. J. Speech Technol., 1998

Three methods of intonation modeling.

Ann K. Syrdal, Gregor Möhler, Kurt E. Dusterhoff, Alistair Conkie, Alan W. Black

Proceedings of the Third ESCA/COCOSDA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 1998

Diphone synthesis using unit selection.

Mark C. Beutnagel, Alistair Conkie, Ann K. Syrdal

Proceedings of the Third ESCA/COCOSDA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 1998

Exploration of acoustic correlates in speaker selection for concatenative synthesis.

Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie, Yannis Stylianou

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Incorporating The 7th Australian International Speech Science and Technology Conference, Sydney Convention Centre, Sydney, Australia, 30th November, 1998

TD-PSOLA versus harmonic plus noise model in diphone based speech synthesis.

Ann K. Syrdal, Yannis Stylianou, Laurie Garrison, Alistair Conkie, Jürgen Schröter

Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1998

1996

Acoustic variability in spontaneous conversational speech of american English talkers.

Ann K. Syrdal

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1996

1985

Aspects of a model of the auditory representation of american english vowels.

Ann K. Syrdal

Speech Commun., 1985