• 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 ...
    • Glottal Source Contribution to Higher Order Modes in the Finite Element Synthesis of Vowels 

      Freixes Guerreiro, Marc; Arnela Coll, Marc; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Guasch Fortuny, Oriol (Applied Sciences. 2019, Vol. 9, No. 21, 2019-10)
      Articulatory speech synthesis has long been based on one-dimensional (1D) approaches. They assume plane wave propagation within the vocal tract and disregard higher order modes that typically appear ...
    • Sons al balcó: Soundscape Map of the Confinement in Catalonia 

      Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Orga Vidal, Ferran; Mallol Parera, Roger; Freixes Guerreiro, Marc; Baño Coral, Xavier; Foraster Pulido, Maria (Engineering Proceedings, 2020, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2020-11)
      In this project, we aim to study the effect that the lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic has caused on the perception of noise in Catalonia. In Sons al Balcó, the research activities cohabit with the ...