Investigadora Ramón y Cajal al Grup TALN
Cap del Laboratori de Parla Expressiva
Coordinatora del Màster en Sistemes Intel·ligents Interactius
Why is synthetic speech still so boring? What can we learn from prosody?
Speech synthesis still sufferst from a lack of naturalness, because human speech naturalness and expressiveness is conveyed through many linguistic dimensions that are not considered in text-to-speech systems. I am passionate about analysing how linguistic structures relate to prosody, in order to understand the role that prosodic elements take in spoken discourse, and to transfer such information into several fields: speech synthesis, automatic speech recognition, and the use of prosody to detect mental and physical disorders.
Department of Information and Communication Technologies
Edifici Tànger (campus del Poblenou)
Tànger, 122-140
08018 Barcelona
(+34) 93 542 2569