no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Alex Gutkin, er
While the auditory periphery mechanisms responsible for transducing the sound pressure wave into the auditory nerve discharge are relatively well understood, the models that describe them are usually very complex because they try to faithfully simulate the behavior of several functionally distinct biological units involved in hearing.
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Oddur Kjartansson, Alex Gutkin, er, Alena Butryna, Isin Demirsahin, Clara Rivera
This paper introduces new open speech datasets for three of the languages of Spain: Basque, Catalan and Galician.
Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +2
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Yin May Oo, Theeraphol Wattanavekin, Chenfang Li, Pasindu De Silva, Supheakmungkol Sarin, Knot Pipatsrisawat, Martin Jansche, Oddur Kjartansson, Alex Gutkin, er
This paper introduces an open-source crowd-sourced multi-speaker speech corpus along with the comprehensive set of finite-state transducer (FST) grammars for performing text normalization for the Burmese (Myanmar) language.
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Adriana Guevara-Rukoz, Isin Demirsahin, Fei He, Shan-Hui Cathy Chu, Supheakmungkol Sarin, Knot Pipatsrisawat, Alex Gutkin, er, Alena Butryna, Oddur Kjartansson
In this paper we present a multidialectal corpus approach for building a text-to-speech voice for a new dialect in a language with existing resources, focusing on various South American dialects of Spanish.
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Fei He, Shan-Hui Cathy Chu, Oddur Kjartansson, Clara Rivera, Anna Katanova, Alex Gutkin, er, Isin Demirsahin, Cibu Johny, Martin Jansche, Supheakmungkol Sarin, Knot Pipatsrisawat
We present free high quality multi-speaker speech corpora for Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu, which are six of the twenty two official languages of India spoken by 374 million native speakers.
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Isin Demirsahin, Oddur Kjartansson, Alex Gutkin, er, Clara Rivera
This paper presents a dataset of transcribed high-quality audio of English sentences recorded by volunteers speaking with different accents of the British Isles.
no code implementations • LREC 2016 • Alex Gutkin, er, Linne Ha, Martin Jansche, Knot Pipatsrisawat, Richard Sproat
We present a text-to-speech (TTS) system designed for the dialect of Bengali spoken in Bangladesh.