Browsing by Author "Alías Pujol, Francesc"
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A Hybrid Method Oriented to Concatenative Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Iriondo Sanz, Ignasi; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Sanchís Bernabeu, Francisco Javier; Melenchón Maldonado, Javier (2003-09-01)In this paper we present a speech synthesis method for diphonebased text-to-speech systems. Its main goal is to achieve prosodic modifications that result in more natural-sounding synthetic speech. This ... -
A Pitch Marks Filtering Algorithm Based on Restricted Dynamic Programming
Alías Pujol, Francesc; Monzó Sánchez, Carlos; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi (2006-09-17)In this paper, a generic pitch marks filtering algorithm (PMFA) is introduced in order to achieve reliable and smooth pitch marks from any input pitch tracking or marking algorithm. The proposed PMFA ... -
A Review of physical and perceptual feature extraction techniques for speech, music and environmental sounds
Alías Pujol, Francesc; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi; Sevillano Domínguez, Xavier (Applied Sciences. 2016, Vol. 6, No.5 (Maig), 2016-05)Endowing machines with sensing capabilities similar to those of humans is a prevalent quest in engineering and computer science. In the pursuit of making computers sense their surroundings, a huge effort ... -
A unit selection text-to-speech-and-singing synthesis framework from neutral speech: proof of concept
Freixes Guerreiro, Marc; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi (EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing. 2019:22, 2019-12)Text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis systems have been widely used in general-purpose applications based on the generation of speech. Nonetheless, there are some domains, such as storytelling or voice output ... -
A WASN-Based Suburban Dataset for Anomalous Noise Event Detection on Dynamic Road-Traffic Noise Mapping
Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Orga Vidal, Ferran; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi (Sensors. 2019, Vol. 19, No. 11, 2019-05)Traffic noise is presently considered one of the main pollutants in urban and suburban areas. Several recent technological advances have allowed a step forward in the dynamic computation of road-traffic ... -
Acoustic Categorization of the urban Multi-Sensor Network ofthe DYNAMAP LIFE project developed for Road Traffic NoiseMapping
Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Orga Vidal, Ferran (2019-06-16)The DYNAMAP LIFE project proposes the implementation of a dynamic noisemapping system able to determine the acoustic impact of road infrastructures inreal-time, following the European ... -
Adaptación del CTH-URL para la competición Albayzin 2008
Monzo Sánchez, Carlos; Formiga Fanals, Lluís; Adell, Jordi; Iriondo Sanz, Ignasi; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi (2008-11)En esta comunicación describimos el sistema de síntesis de voz presentado a la competición Albayzin 2008. Es un sistema que sigue un esquema clásico de concatenación de unidades basado en corpus. Cabe ... -
Adapting an Anomalous Noise Events Detectorfor Real-Life Operation in the Rome SuburbanPilot Area of the DYNAMAP’s Project
Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Orga Vidal, Ferran (2018-05-27)The DYNAMAP project is aimed at implementing a dynamic noise mapping system able to determine the acoustic impact of road infrastructures in real-time, encouraged by the European Noise Directive 2002/49/EC. ... -
Aggregate Impact of Anomalous Noise Events on the WASN-Based Computation of Road Traffic Noise Levels in Urban and Suburban Environments
Alías Pujol, Francesc; Orga Vidal, Ferran; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi (Sensors, 2020, Vol. 20 No 3, 2020-01)Environmental noise can be defined as the accumulation of noise pollution caused by sounds generated by outdoor human activities, Road Traffic Noise (RTN) being the main source in urban and suburban ... -
ALGTEC: Un complemento a la enseñanza del álgebra lineal en carreras de ingeniería de telecomunicaciones
Montero Morales, José Antonio; Martínez Marroquín, Elisa; Moran Moreno, José Antonio; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Rodríguez Oliver, Jordi (2002-06)En este artículo se presenta la aplicación multimedia ALGTEC (ÁLGebra y TECnología) que pretende acercar al alumno de ingeniería al ‘mundo del álgebra’ y a algunas de sus aplicaciones en el ‘mundo ... -
An Anomalous Noise Events Detector for Dynamic Road Traffic Noise Mapping in Real-Life Urban and Suburban Environments
Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria (Sensors. 2017, Vol.17, No.10, 2017-10)One of the main aspects affecting the quality of life of people living in urban and suburban areas is their continued exposure to high Road Traffic Noise (RTN) levels. Until now, noise measurements in ... -
An FPGA-Based WASN for Remote Real-Time Monitoring of Endangered Species: A Case Study on the Birdsong Recognition of Botaurus stellaris
Hervás García, Marcos; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Salvador Marín, Martí (Sensors. 2017, Vol.17 , No. 6, 2017-06)Fast environmental variations due to climate change can cause mass decline or even extinctions of species, having a dramatic impact on the future of biodiversity. During the last decade, different ... -
Analyzing Active Interactive Genetic Algorithms using Visual Analytics
Llorà, Xavier; Sastry, Kumara; Alías Pujol, Francesc (Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, 2006, 2006-07)This paper builds introduces visual-analytic techniques to aggregate, summarize, and visualize the information generated during interactive evolutionary processes. Special visualizations of the user-provided ... -
Anomalous Noise Events Considerations for the Computation of Road Traffic Noise Levels in Suburban Areas: The DYNAMAP's Rome Case Study
Orga Vidal, Ferran; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi; Bellucci, Patrizia; Peruzzi, Laura (2017-06-07) -
Anomalous Noise Events Considerations for the Computation of Road Traffic Noise Levels: The Dynamap's Milan Case Study
Orga Vidal, Ferran; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Zambon, Giovanni; Benocci, Roberto; Bisceglie, Alessandro (2017-07-23)Dynamic noise maps are computed to represent the noise levels generated by road traffic in realtime to determine the population exposure to environmental noise. To this aim, a network ofacoustic ... -
Aplicació de tècniques de generació automàtica de la parla en producció audiovisual
Alías Pujol, Francesc; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi; Iriondo Sanz, Ignasi (Quaderns del CAC 37, 2011. Vol. 14, 2 (Desembre), 2011-12)En aquest article es presenta un resum del treball de recerca que porta el mateix títol, realitzat gràcies a l’ajut concedit pel CAC en la VII convocatòria d’Ajuts a projectes de recerca sobre ... -
Asignación automática de marcas de pitch basada en programación dinámica
Alías Pujol, Francesc; Iriondo Sanz, Ignasi (Procesamiento del lenguaje natural, No. 27 (2001), 2001)En este artículo se presenta la implementación y evaluación de un sistema de generación automática de marcas de pitch, para el etiquetado de un corpus de voz. El sistema está basado en dos conceptos: ... -
La Conversión de Texto en Habla Multidominio: principios y portabilidad
Alías Pujol, Francesc; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi (Libro de actas de las IV Jornadas en Tecnología del Habla, 2006-11-08)La conversión de texto en habla (CTH) multidominio per-sigue conseguir una calidad sintética cercana a la de lossistemas de CTH diseñados para un determinado ámbi-to o aplicación, aumentando su flexibilidad ... -
Description of Anomalous Noise Events for Reliable Dynamic Traffic Noise Mapping in Real-Life Urban and Suburban Soundscapes
Alías Pujol, Francesc; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi (Applied Sciences. 2017, Vol.7 No.2 (Febrer), 2017-02)Traffic noise is one of the main pollutants in urban and suburban areas. European authorities have driven several initiatives to study, prevent and reduce the effects of exposure of population to traffic. ... -
Design of a Mobile Low-Cost Sensor Network Using Urban Buses for Real-Time Ubiquitous Noise Monitoring
Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Hernández Jayo, Unai; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Angulo Martínez, Ignacio (Sensors. 2016, Vol. 17 No.1, 2016-12)One of the main priorities of smart cities is improving the quality of life of their inhabitants. Traffic noise is one of the pollutant sources that causes a negative impact on the quality of life of ...