Friedrich Neubarth


2018

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Action Verb Corpus
Stephanie Gross | Matthias Hirschmanner | Brigitte Krenn | Friedrich Neubarth | Michael Zillich
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)

2013

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Corpus development for machine translation between standard and dialectal varieties
Barry Haddow | Adolfo Hernández | Friedrich Neubarth | Harald Trost
Proceedings of the Workshop on Adaptation of Language Resources and Tools for Closely Related Languages and Language Variants

2011

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Proceedings of the First Workshop on Algorithms and Resources for Modelling of Dialects and Language Varieties
Jeremy Jancsary | Friedrich Neubarth | Harald Trost
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Algorithms and Resources for Modelling of Dialects and Language Varieties

2010

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Resources for Speech Synthesis of Viennese Varieties
Michael Pucher | Friedrich Neubarth | Volker Strom | Sylvia Moosmüller | Gregor Hofer | Christian Kranzler | Gudrun Schuchmann | Dietmar Schabus
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)

This paper describes our work on developing corpora of three varieties of Viennese for unit selection speech synthesis. The synthetic voices for Viennese varieties, implemented with the open domain unit selection speech synthesis engine Multisyn of Festival will also be released within Festival. The paper especially focuses on two questions: how we selected the appropriate speakers and how we obtained the text sources needed for the recording of these non-standard varieties. Regarding the first one, it turned out that working with a ‘prototypical’ professional speaker was much more preferable than striving for authenticity. In addition, we give a brief outline about the differences between the Austrian standard and its dialectal varieties and how we solved certain technical problems that are related to these differences. In particular, the specific set of phones applicable to each variety had to be determined by applying various constraints. Since such a set does not serve any descriptive purposes but rather is influencing the quality of speech synthesis, a careful design of such a set was an important task.