NN Text-To-Speech at Motorola: Papers and Audio Files

[Otto Schnurr-A11505 <Otto_Schnurr-A11505@email.mot.com>]

Dear Connectionists:


Motorola has been developing text-to-speech technology that utilizes
multiple cooperating neural networks, each specializing in a
particular area of human language ability.  Papers that describe this
work are now available electronically at the LANL archive:


   1998:
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Title      : A High Quality Text-To-Speech System Composed of Multiple
             Neural Networks
Authors    : Orhan Karaali, Gerald Corrigan, Noel Massey, Corey Miller,
             Otto Schnurr and Andrew Mackie
Abstract   : http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cs/9812006
PostScript : http://xxx.lanl.gov/ps/cs/9812006.ps.gz
PS & Audio : http://xxx.lanl.gov/e-print/cs/9812006.tar.gz


   1997:
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Title      : Text-To-Speech Conversion with Neural Networks:
             A Recurrent TDNN Approach
Authors    : Orhan Karaali, Gerald Corrigan, Ira Gerson and Noel Massey
Abstract   : http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cs/9811032
PostScript : http://xxx.lanl.gov/ps/cs/9811032.ps.gz

Title      : Generating Segment Durations in a Text-To-Speech System:
             A Hybrid Rule-Based/Neural Network Approach
Authors    : Gerald Corrigan, Noel Massey and Orhan Karaali
Abstract   : http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cs/9811030
PostScript : http://xxx.lanl.gov/ps/cs/9811030.ps.gz

Title      : Variation and Synthetic Speech
Authors    : Corey Miller, Orhan Karaali and Noel Massey
Abstract   : http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cmp-lg/9711004
PostScript : http://xxx.lanl.gov/ps/cmp-lg/9711004.ps.gz


   1996:
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Title      : Speech Synthesis with Neural Networks
Authors    : Orhan Karaali, Gerald Corrigan and Ira Gerson
Abstract   : http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cs/9811031
PostScript : http://xxx.lanl.gov/ps/cs/9811031.ps.gz


Due to requests, we have submitted excerpts of speech generated from
our text-to-speech system.  These audio files demonstrate one female
voice and two male voices and are available at
http://xxx.lanl.gov/e-print/cs/9812006.tar.gz

Note: If your system does not support Windows WAV files, try a tool like
"sox" to translate the audio into a format of your choice.


Regards,

Otto Schnurr

Speech Processing Research Lab
Motorola
otto_schnurr@email.mot.com