• Feature Diversity in Cluster Ensembles for Robust Document Clustering 

      Sevillano Domínguez, Xavier; Cobo Rodríguez, Germán; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi (2006-08)
      The performance of document clustering systems depends on employing optimal text representations, which are not only difficult to determine beforehand, but also may vary from one clustering problem to ...
    • Fuzzy Logic Control for Multiresolutive Adaptive PN Acquisition Scheme in Time-Varying Multipath Ionospheric Channel 

      Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Mateo Segura, Clàudia; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi; Bergadà Caramés, Pau (Fuzzy Logic - Controls, Concepts, Theories and Applications, 2012-03)
      Communication with remote places is a challenge often solved using satellites. However, when trying to reach Antarctic stations, this solution suffers from poor visibility range and high operational ...
    • 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 ...
    • GTM-URL Contribution to the INTERSPEECH 2009 Emotion Challenge 

      Planet García, Santiago; Iriondo Sanz, Ignasi; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi; Monzo Sánchez, Carlos; Adell, Jordi (2009-09)
      This paper describes our participation in the INTERSPEECH 2009 Emotion Challenge [1]. Starting from our previous experience in the use of automatic classification for the validation of an expressive ...
    • HMM-based Spanish speech synthesis using CBR as F0 estimator 

      Gonzalvo Fructuoso, Xavier; Iriondo Sanz, Ignasi; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Monzo Sánchez, Carlos (2007-05)
      Hidden Markov Models based text-to-speech (HMM-TTS) syn thesis is a technique for generating speech from trained statisti cal models where spectrum, pitch and durations of basic speech units are modelled ...
    • Initial verification of Dynamic Acoustic Mappingalong the motorway surrounding the city of Rome 

      Benocci, Roberto; Angelini, Fabio; Bisceglie, Alessandro; Zambon, Giovanni; Bellucci, Patrizia; Peruzzi, Laura; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Orga Vidal, Ferran (2018-08-26)
      DYNAMAP (Dynamic Acoustic Mapping) is a EU LIFE project which aims at developing a dynamic noise mapping system in urban areas (Milan city) and along the motorway A90 surrounding the city ...
    • Linguistic and Mixed Excitation Improvements on a HMM-based speech synthesis for Castilian Spanish 

      Gonzalvo Fructuoso, Xavier; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi; Iriondo Sanz, Ignasi; Monzo Sánchez, Carlos; Martínez Marroquín, Elisa (Proceedings of the 6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2007-08)
      HiddenMarkov Models based text-to-speech(HMM-TTS)synthesis is one of the techniques for generating speech from trained statistical models where spectrum and prosody of basic speech units are modelled ...
    • Local minimum generation error criterion for hybrid HMM speech synthesis 

      Gonzalvo Fructuoso, Xavier; Gutkin, Alexander; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi; Iriondo Sanz, Ignasi; Taylor, Paul (2009-09)
      This paper presents an HMM-driven hybrid speech synthesis approach in which unit selection concatenative synthesis is used to improve the quality of the statistical system using a Local Minimum Generation ...
    • Multi-domain Text-to-Speech Synthesis by Automatic Text Classification 

      Alías Pujol, Francesc; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi; Sevillano Domínguez, Xavier; Iriondo Sanz, Ignasi; Gonzalvo Fructuoso, Xavier (2006-09-17)
      This paper describes a multi-domain text-to-speech (MD-TTS)synthesis strategy for generating speech among different domainsand so increasing the flexibility of high quality TTS systems. Tothat ...
    • Performance Analysis of the Acoustic Event Detector in the DYNAMAP’s Rome suburban area 

      Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi; Orga Vidal, Ferran (2019-09)
      Environmental noise is increasing year after year and, besides annoyance, it causes harmful health effects on people according to last 2018 WHO report. The Environmental Noise Directive 2002/49/EC (END) ...
    • Preliminary Results of DYNAMAP Noise Mapping Operations 

      Benocci, Roberto; Angelini, Fabio; Cambiaghi, Marco; Bisceglie, Alessandro; Roman, Hector Eduardo; Zambon, Giovanni; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Orga Vidal, Ferran (2018-08-26)
      DYNAMAP, a European Life project, aims at developing a dynamical acoustic map of large urban areassuch as the city of Milan based on a limited number of noise monitoring stations. Generally, traffic ...
    • Real-time urban traffic noise maps: the influence of Anomalous Noise Events in Milan Pilot area of DYNAMAP 

      Zambon, Giovanni; Benocci, Roberto; Orga Vidal, Ferran; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi (2017-08-27)
      The DYNAMAP project is expected to provide the traffic noise mapping of the city of Milan with an updating interval down to 5 minutes, thanks to a network of real-time noise monitoring ...
    • Survey of Environmental Noise in the Port of Barcelona 

      Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi; Barqué Milà, Sergi (2018-05-24)
      Ports and harbours are logistic nodes characterized by noisy operations. Noise pollution analysis iscomplicated, because several types of noise usually can occur in the same area: ferries, cruises, ...
    • Text Classification based on Associative Relational Networks for Multi-Domain Text-to-Speech Synthesis 

      Alías Pujol, Francesc; Sevillano Domínguez, Xavier; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi (Proceedings of the SIGIR Workshop on Directions in Computational Analysis of Stylistics in Text Retrieval, 2006-08)
      This work is a step further in our research towards developing a new strategy for high quality text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis among different domains. In this context, it is necessary to select the most ...
    • The impact of man-made noise on the passenger transport stations of Port of Barcelona 

      Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi; Bergadà Caramés, Pau (2019-06)
      Ports and harbours are logistic nodes characterized by several types of noise, which can usually occur in a concurrent manner in the same harbour premises: ferries, cruises, fishing and trade ships ...
    • Training an Anomalous Noise Event Detection Algorithm for Dynamic Road Traffic Noise Mapping: Environmental Noise Recording Campaign 

      Alías Pujol, Francesc; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi; Sevillano Domínguez, Xavier; Nencini, Luca (2015-10)
      The LIFE+ DYNAMAP project aims at creating dynamic road traffic noise maps automatically upon the levels measured by a low cost sensors network. To ensure these maps reflect ...
    • Voice quality modelling for expressive speech synthesis 

      Monzo Sánchez, Carlos; Iriondo Sanz, Ignasi; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi (The Scientific World Journal. 2014, 2014-01)
      This paper presents the perceptual experiments that were carried out in order to validate the methodology of transforming expressive speech styles using voice quality (VoQ) parameters modelling, along ...
    • Voice Quality Modelling for Expressive Speech Synthesis 

      Monzo Sánchez, Carlos; Iriondo Sanz, Ignasi; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi (Scientific World Journal, 2014, Vol. 2014 (Gener), 2014-01-22)
      This paper presents the perceptual experiments that were carried out in order to validate the methodology of transforming expressive speech styles using voice quality (VoQ) parameters modelling, along ...
    • WASN-Based Day–Night Characterization of Urban Anomalous Noise Events in Narrow and Wide Streets 

      Alías Pujol, Francesc; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria (Sensors, 2020, Vol. 20 No 17, 2020-08)
      In addition to air pollution, environmental noise has become one of the major hazards for citizens, being Road Traffic Noise (RTN) as its main source in urban areas. Recently, low-cost Wireless Acoustic ...