what's where (short cuts)

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Top-level pages (text in Japanese):

• Corpus-based speech synthesis.
• Intro - `recycling' and `indexing'
• Personality in the voice,
• Index-based speech segment retrieval,
which in turn calls:
• Random-access Synthesis,
• Context-sensitive units,
• What's an index?
which in turn calls:
• the philosophy behind chatr,
• labelling, and
• selection weights
• Multilingual synthesis
• Making a multi-speaker database.
• How our attitude towards texts has evolved.
• What's coming next
(calls improving intonation: 1, 2, and 3)
• Applications.

Speech samples:

• multilingual CHATR:
• A few English voices
• A few Japanese voices
• Alan Alda an American English voice
(see Scientific American Frontiers
• A British English voice (text and tts-synthesis)
• A Chinese conversation (from the HKU CD-Rom)
• A Korean conversation
• Ohta san's Korean
• Some German
(from the Kiel Uni CD-Rom)
• Kansai Japanese (a joke - note the laughter)
• multilingual Japanese
• Ohira Toru san (aka `the laughing salesman')
• Chatr's children


• Kuroyanagi Tetsuko:
• Q&A (how chatr works)
• Tetsuko's samples
• Tetsuko's opinion
• Multilingual Tetsuko
• Tetsuko's weather report
• Korean Tetsuko
• more data needed


• The synthesis system:
• The weather forecast ATR nutalk vs a young female version
• Processing multiple languages in a text
• Copy Synthesis (no prediction involved)
• How focus changes meaning
• Why we don't use signal processing

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