Search Results for author: Martti Vainio

Found 4 papers, 1 papers with code

Investigating the Utility of Surprisal from Large Language Models for Speech Synthesis Prosody

no code implementations16 Jun 2023 Sofoklis Kakouros, Juraj Šimko, Martti Vainio, Antti Suni

We explore how word surprisal extracted from large language models (LLMs) correlates with word prominence, a signal-based measure of the salience of a word in a given discourse.

Speech Synthesis

The Power of Prosody and Prosody of Power: An Acoustic Analysis of Finnish Parliamentary Speech

no code implementations25 May 2023 Martti Vainio, Antti Suni, Juraj Šimko, Sofoklis Kakouros

Parliamentary recordings provide a rich source of data for studying how politicians use speech to convey their messages and influence their audience.

Hierarchical Representation of Prosody for Statistical Speech Synthesis

no code implementations7 Oct 2015 Antti Suni, Daniel Aalto, Martti Vainio

However, there are no representation schemes that would provide for both estimating and modelling them in a unified fashion.

Speech Synthesis Text-To-Speech Synthesis

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