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Article
Speak to me and I tell you who you are! A language-attitude study in a cultural-heritage application
Research on intelligent agents has demonstrated that the degree an artificial entity resembles a human correlates with the likelihood that the entity will evoke social and psychological processes in humans. La...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Hybrid Approach to Statistical Machine Translation Between Standard and Dialectal Varieties
Using statistical machine translation (SMT) for dialectal varieties usually suffers from data sparsity, but combining word-level and character-level models can yield good results even with small training data ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Social Evaluation of Artificial Agents by Language Varieties
In Sociolinguistics, language attitude studies based on natural voices have provided evidence that human listeners socially assess and evaluate their communication partners according to the language variety th...
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Chapter
Optimizing Phonetic Encoding for Viennese Unit Selection Speech Synthesis
While develo** lexical resources for a particular language variety (Viennese), we experimented with a set of 5 different phonetic encodings, termed phone sets, used for unit selection speech synthesis. We st...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Design and Development of Spoken Dialog Systems Incorporating Speech Synthesis of Viennese Varieties
This paper describes our work on the design and development of a spoken dialog system, which uses synthesized speech of various different Viennese varieties. In a previous study we investigated the usefulness ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Distributional Concept for Modeling Dialectal Variation in TTS
Current TTS systems usually represent a certain standard of a given language, regional or social variation is barely reflected. In this paper, we describe certain strategies for modeling language varieties on ...
