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SUMMARY:Speech Production Mechanism And Vocoding Technique In Statistical 
 Parametric Speech Synthesis - Ranniery (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd.) and 
 Yannis (Google)
DTSTART:20110302T130000Z
DTEND:20110302T150000Z
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CONTACT:Kai Yu
DESCRIPTION:Statistical parametric speech synthesis is based on the combin
 ation of a fully parametric speech representation and a generative statist
 ical framework. The first part of this talk describes the speech productio
 n mechanism from a signal processing point of view and provides an introdu
 ction to modern vocoding techniques. The second part of this talk addresse
 s vocoding in the context of statistical parametric speech synthesis and d
 iscusses modern techniques that alleviate the inherent unnaturalness of th
 e sound produced by those systems. 
LOCATION:Cambridge University Engineering Department\, Lecture Room 2
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