Publications

International Journal

  • Tahon Marie Lecorvé Gwénolé and Lolive Damien. Can we Generate Emotional Pronunciations for Expressive Speech Synthesis?, In IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2018.

International Conferences 

  • Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie, Damien Lolive, Hiyon Yoo and David Guennec. Rhythmic Patterns and Literary Genres in Synthesized Speech, In Speech Prosody 2016, 2016.
  • Katarina Bartkova, Denis Jouvet, Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie. Prosodic Parameters and Prosodic Structures of French Emotional Data, In Speech Prosody 2016, 2016.
  • Marie Tahon, Raheel Qader, Gwénolé Lecorvé and Damien Lolive. Improving TTS with corpus-specific pronunciation adaptation, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Interspeech), 2016.
  • Marie Tahon, Raheel Qader, Gwénolé Lecorvé and Damien Lolive. Optimal feature set and minimal training size for pronunciation adaptation in TTS , In Proceedings of the International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing (SLSP), 2016.
  • Pierre Alain, Jonathan Chevelu, David Guennec, Gwénolé Lecorvé and Damien Lolive. The IRISA Text-To-Speech System for the Blizzard Challenge 2016. In Blizzard Challenge 2016 Workshop, Sep 2016, Cupertino, USA.
  • Pierre Alain, Nelly Barbot, Jonathan Chevelu, Gwénolé Lecorvé, Damien Lolive, Claude Simon and Marie Tahon. The IRISA Text-To-Speech System for the Blizzard Challenge 2017. In Blizzard Challenge 2017 Workshop, Aug 2017, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Raheel Qader, Gwénolé Lecorvé, Damien Lolive, Marie Tahon, Pascale Sébillot. Statistical Pronunciation Adaptation for Spontaneous Speech Synthesis. In Proc. of Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD), Prague, Czech Republic, 2017.
  • Marie Tahon, Gwénolé Lecorvé, Damien Lolive, Raheel Qader. Perception of expressivity in TTS: linguistics, phonetics or prosody?, In Proc. of the International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing (SLSP), Le Mans, France, 2017.
  • Aghilas Sini, Damien Lolive, Gaëlle Vidal, Marie Tahon and Élisabeth Delais-Roussarie. SynPaFlex-Corpus: An Expressive French Audiobooks Corpus Dedicated to Expressive Speech Synthesis, In Proc. of LREC, Miyazaki, Japan, 2018.
  • Marie Tahon and Damien Lolive. Discourse phrases classification: direct vs. narrative audio speech, In Proc. of Speech Prosody, Poznań, Poland, 2018.
  • Pierre Alain, Gwénolé Lecorvé, Damien Lolive, Antoine Perquin.
    The IRISA Text-To-Speech System for the Blizzard Challenge 2018. In Blizzard Challenge 2018 Workshop, Sep 2018, Hyderabad, India.
  • Raheel Qader, Gwénolé Lecorvé, Damien Lolive and Pascale Sébillot. Disfluency Insertion for Spontaneous TTS: Formalization and Proof of Concept, In Proc. of the International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing (SLSP), Mons, Belgium, 2018.
  • Antoine Perquin, Gwénolé Lecorvé, Damien Lolive and Laurent Amsaleg. Phone-Level Embeddings for Unit Selection Speech Synthesis, In Proc. of the International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing (SLSP), Mons, Belgium, 2018.
  • Meysam Shamsi, Damien Lolive, Nelly Barbot and Jonathan Chevelu. Corpus Design using Convolutional Auto-Encoder Embeddings for Audio-Book Synthesis, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Interspeech), 2019.
  • Meysam Shamsi, Damien Lolive, Nelly Barbot and Jonathan Chevelu. Investigating the relation between voice corpus design and hybrid synthesis under reduction constraint, In In Proc. of the International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing (SLSP), Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2019.
  • Meysam Shamsi, Damien Lolive, Nelly Barbot and Jonathan Chevelu. Script Selection using Convolutional Auto-encoder for TTS Speech Corpus, In Proc. of the international conference on speech and computer, Istanbul, Turkey, 2019.
  • Aghilas Sini, Sébastien Le Maguer, Damien Lolive and Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie. Introducing Prosodic Speaker Identity for a Better Expressive Speech Synthesis Control, In Proc. of the international conference on speech prosody, 2020.
  • Meysam Shamsi, Jonathan Chevelu, Nelly Barbot and Damien Lolive. Corpus design for expressive speech: impact of the utterance length, In Proc. of the international conference on speech prosody, 2020.

National Conferences 

  • Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie, Damien Lolive, Hiyon Yoo and David Guennec. Patrons Rythmiques et Genres Littéraires en Synthèse de la Parole, In Actes de la conférence JEP 2016, 2016.
  • Aghilas Sini, Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie, Damien Lolive. Annotation automatique des types de discours dans des livres audio en vue d’une oralisation par un système de synthèse, In Actes des Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel (TALN), Rennes, France, 2018.