HQSYN16

The following two papers were accepted for SPECOM 2018 conference (indexed by ISI Web of Knowledge and Scopus):

• TIHELKA, D., HANZLÍČEK, Z., JŮZOVÁ, M., MATOUŠEK, J. First Steps Towards Hybrid Speech Synthesis in Czech TTS system ARTIC (Research Area RA4: Activity RA4c)
• MATURA, M., JŮZOVÁ, M., MATOUŠEK, J. On the Contribution of Articulatory Features to Speech Synthesis (Research Area RA3: Activity RA3b)

The following four papers were accepted for TSD 2018 conference (indexed by ISI Web of Knowledge and Scopus):

• HANZLÍČEK, Z., VÍT, J., TIHELKA, D. WaveNet-based speech synthesis applied to Czech: A comparison with the traditional synthesis methods (Research Area RA4: Activity RA4b, RA4d)
• PŘIBIL, J., PŘIBILOVÁ, A., MATOUŠEK, J. Automatic evaluation of synthetic speech quality by a system based on statistical analysis (RA4: R4a)
• JŮZOVÁ, M., TIHELKA, D., VOLÍN, J. On the Extension of the Formal Prosody Model for TTS (Research Area RA3: Activity RA3c)
• JŮZOVÁ, M., TIHELKA, D., VOLÍN, J. F0 Post-Stress Rise Trends Consideration in Unit Selection TTS (Research Area RA3: Activity RA3d)

The following paper was presented at prestigious International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (indexed by ISI Web of Knowledge and Scopus):

• VÍT, J., HANZLÍČEK, Z., MATOUŠEK, J. ON THE ANALYSIS OF TRAINING DATA FOR WAVENET-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS (Research Area RA4: Activity RA4b and RA4d)

The following article was published in the Journal of Electrical Engineering (Volume 69, 2018, ISSN 1335-3632, IF 0.407, DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jee-2018-0017/)

• PŘIBIL, J., PŘIBILOVÁ, A., MATOUŠEK, J. Evaluation of speaker de-identification based on voice gender and age conversion (Research Area RA4: Activity RA4a)

The following article was published in the Radioengineering journal (Volume 26, No. 4, 2017, ISSN 1335-3632, IF 0.945, DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.13164/re.2017.1151)

• PŘIBIL, J., PŘIBILOVÁ, A., MATOUŠEK, J. Automatic Text-Independent Artifact Detection, Localization, and Classification in the Synthetic Speech (Research Area RA4: Activity RA4a)

The following two papers were accepted for prestigious INTERSPEECH 2017 conference (indexed by ISI Web of Knowledge and Scopus):

• MATOUŠEK, J., TIHELKA, D. Classification-Based Detection of Glottal Closure Instants from Speech Signals (Research Area RA3: Activity RA3c)
• BOŘIL, T., ŠTURM, P., SKARNITZL, R., VOLÍN, J. Effect of formant and F0 discontinuity on perceived vowel duration: Impacts for concatenative speech synthesis (Research Areas RA1, RA2: Activities RA1c, RA2b, RA2c)

The following paper was accepted for SPECOM 2017 conference (indexed by ISI Web of Knowledge and Scopus):

• MATOUŠEK, J., TIHELKA, D. Annotation Error Detection: Anomaly Detection vs. Classification (Research Area RA1: Activity RA1d)

The following three papers were accepted for TSD 2017 conference (indexed by ISI Web of Knowledge and Scopus):

• JŮZOVÁ, M., TIHELKA, D., SKARNITZL, R. Last Syllable Unit Penalization in Unit Selection TTS (Research Area RA3: Activity RA3d)
• HANZLÍČEK, Z. Optimal Number of States in HMM-Based Speech Synthesis (RA4: RA4b)
• PŘIBIL, J., PŘIBILOVÁ, A., MATOUŠEK, J. Automatic Classification of Types of Artefacts Arising During the Unit Selection Speech Synthesis (RA4: R4a)

The following article has been accepted for publication in the journal Computer Speech and Language (ISSN: 0885-2308, IF: 1.324)

• MATOUŠEK, J., TIHELKA, D. Anomaly-based annotation error detection in speech-synthesis corpora (Research Area RA1: Activity RA1d)

The following article was published in the Journal of Electrical Engineering (Volume 68, 2017, ISSN 1335-3632, IF 0.407, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jee-2017-0001)

• PŘIBIL, J., PŘIBILOVÁ, A., MATOUŠEK, J. GMM-based speaker age and gender classification in Czech and Slovak (Research Area RA4: Activity RA4a)