Ramón y Cajal fellow at TALN Group
Head of the Expressive Speech Lab
Coordinator of the Master in Intelligent Interactive Systems
orcid.org/0000-0002-7160-9513Why 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.
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