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Ivona, acquired by Amazon, is a hugely notable example. They're great folks, and do great work. Alexa'a voice was done by them, but an early customer of thei

by praccu 11y ago

Ivona, acquired by Amazon, is a hugely notable example. They're great folks, and do great work. Alexa'a voice was done by them, but an early customer of theirs was the Polish public transit system. A lot of really great work is happening in academia; I'm not going to name names because I'd forget someone deserving. (Shameless plug: we [0] do speech and language consulting including custom TTS.) [0] cobaltspeech.com

bossx 11y ago
Please name names in Academia I would really like to explore the research and advancements being made in TTS
- praccu 11y ago
  aah. Okay. Disclaimer, [b] this isn't my area [/b] and I'm going to miss some folks. I apologize to all of the important and interesting work that I'm missing. Also, I'm really linking to research groups, so take these names as starting points and look at their students and other professors working with them. First off, the Blizzard challenge is a major hub of activity. [4] Festival is an important piece of software [5]. Interspeech is an important conference [6] (take a look at the speech synthesis track and the organizers for that). Alan Black [0] @ CMU is kinda a giant. Keiichi Tokuda [3] @ Nagoya also a giant. Simon King [1] @ Edinburgh, just had a paper linked to on HN a few days ago and does important work. Mark Gales [2] @ Cambridge does work here, too. [0] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/ https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/ [1] http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/ssi/people/simonk.html http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/ssi/people/simonk.html [2] http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/~mjfg/ http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/~mjfg/ [3] http://www.sp.nitech.ac.jp/~tokuda/ http://www.sp.nitech.ac.jp/~tokuda/ [4] http://festvox.org/blizzard/ http://festvox.org/blizzard/ [5] http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ [6] http://interspeech2015.org/wp-content/uploads/direct/INTERSPEECH_2015_AbstractBook.pdf http://interspeech2015.org/wp-content/uploads/direct/INTERSP...

by praccu 11y ago

bossx 11y ago

Please name names in Academia I would really like to explore the research and advancements being made in TTS

praccu 11y ago
aah. Okay. Disclaimer, [b] this isn't my area [/b] and I'm going to miss some folks. I apologize to all of the important and interesting work that I'm missing. Also, I'm really linking to research groups, so take these names as starting points and look at their students and other professors working with them. First off, the Blizzard challenge is a major hub of activity. [4] Festival is an important piece of software [5]. Interspeech is an important conference [6] (take a look at the speech synthesis track and the organizers for that). Alan Black [0] @ CMU is kinda a giant. Keiichi Tokuda [3] @ Nagoya also a giant. Simon King [1] @ Edinburgh, just had a paper linked to on HN a few days ago and does important work. Mark Gales [2] @ Cambridge does work here, too. [0] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/ https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/ [1] http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/ssi/people/simonk.html http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/ssi/people/simonk.html [2] http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/~mjfg/ http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/~mjfg/ [3] http://www.sp.nitech.ac.jp/~tokuda/ http://www.sp.nitech.ac.jp/~tokuda/ [4] http://festvox.org/blizzard/ http://festvox.org/blizzard/ [5] http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ [6] http://interspeech2015.org/wp-content/uploads/direct/INTERSPEECH_2015_AbstractBook.pdf http://interspeech2015.org/wp-content/uploads/direct/INTERSP...