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Speech SpecialistSemantic Annotation

Linguist, Speech specialist- specialized text projects to integrate expressive speech, marked at the syntactic and/or prosodic level for the emotional acoustic data-base of Vocalizer Expressive 1.0.- annotation of acoustic data base for prosodic phrasing.- voices migration from Loquendo TTS® to Nuance Vocalizer.

Linguist, speech specialist- pre-processing of audio signal (endpoint, declicking, filtering and normalization)- check of acoustic and phonetic match- development of acoustic training models- retrieving and the compilation of phonetic speaker dependent rules- production of the following synthesis voices of Loquendo: Matteo, Giulia, Federica (Italian), Jorge, Leonor, voice custom Meteo, Juan (Castilian Spanish), Carlos (American Spanish), Soledad (Columbian Spanish), Milla… Show more Linguist, speech specialist- pre-processing of audio signal (endpoint, declicking, filtering and normalization)- check of acoustic and phonetic match- development of acoustic training models- retrieving and the compilation of phonetic speaker dependent rules- production of the following synthesis voices of Loquendo: Matteo, Giulia, Federica (Italian), Jorge, Leonor, voice custom Meteo, Juan (Castilian Spanish), Carlos (American Spanish), Soledad (Columbian Spanish), Milla (Finnish), Grace (Australian English), Zeynep (Turkish), Miren (Basque) http://www.loquendo.com/en/demo-center/tts-demo/- integration in the Loquendo TTS® of expressive speech, marked at the syntactic and/or prosodic level (e.g. interrogative sentences, expressive speech acts, discoursive markers), in order to reproduce the stylistic variation in the neutral style of synthesized texts, without compromising the naturalness of speech achieved with the Unit Selection technique- specialized text projects (i.e. text to be recorded or to be mapped in a different phonetic set) for the Italian language, such as loanwords lexical inventories (French and German names for the Valle d'Aosta and Trentino Alto Adige, anglophone neologisms for linguistic codes of economy and finance, information technology and web, sports, etc.), and their adaptations to the italian phonetic set- linguistic analysis for improving the expressiveness of synthesized voices- experience in annotation of textual corpora for prosodic phrasing- co-designer of a tool for prosodic analysis (based on the ESPS software) to annotate speech signals contours on the basis of a set of morphological labels and acoustic parameters- TTS Director: QA testing for TTS Director GUI; User’s Guides technical reviewer- speech output design applications for Banca Mediolanum, Tim, Radio Rai- internal trainer for a contractor Show less