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Nicholas Kibre
Researcher at Panasonic
Publications - 5
Citations - 409
Nicholas Kibre is an academic researcher from Panasonic. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tree (data structure) & Search algorithm. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 5 publications receiving 409 citations.
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Text selection and recording by feedback and adaptation for development of personalized text-to-speech systems
TL;DR: In this article, a new speaker provides speech from which comparison snippets are extracted, and a greedy selection algorithm is performed with the required sound units for identifying the smallest subset of the input text that contains all the text for the new speaker to read.
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High quality concatenative reading system
Hata Kazue,Nicholas Kibre +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a word list generator assigns a prosodic environment state or token to each entry in the list, and different intonations are applied based on the prosodic environments.
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Message assembler using pseudo randomly chosen words in finite state slots
TL;DR: In this article, a linguistic database containing a lexicon of predefined words supplies text data that the message assembler concatenates to form the text strings, which are assembled and optionally tagged to alter the message, speaking voice and inflection based on the nature of the message and its context.
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Prosody template matching for text-to-speech systems
Nicholas Kibre,Ted H. Applebaum +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a prosody matching template in the form of a tree structure stores indices which point to lookup table and template information prescribing pitch and duration values that are used to add inflection to the output of a text-to-speech synthesizer.