Mage 2.0: New Features And Its Application In The Development Of A Talking Guitar
Year: 2013
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: This paper describes the recent progress in our approach to generateperformative and controllable speech. The goal of the performative HMM-basedspeech and singing syn- thesis library, called Mage, is to have the ability togenerate natural sounding speech with arbitrary speaker's voicecharacteristics, speaking styles and expressions and at the same time to haveaccurate reactive user control over all the available production levels. Mageallows to arbitrarily change between voices, control speaking style or vocalidentity, manipulate voice characteristics or alter the targeted contexton-the-fly and also maintain the naturalness and intelligibility of the output.To achieve these controls, it was essential to redesign and improve the initiallibrary. This paper focuses on the improvements of the architectural design,the additional user controls and provides an overview of a prototype, where aguitar is used to reactively control the generation of a synthetic voice invarious levels.
Source: ORBi UMONS
Institution: University of Mons
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2396115437