Company : Vocalize
Project 1: Conversor Texto-Fala de Alta Qualidade Empregando as Técnicas HSMM e SCAUS
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This project was developed to create a robust TTS system for BP, using the techniques described above. The main object was to build synthesized voices as natural as possible, employing it over several products. It was granted by Rhae/CNPq (557987/2008-3)
Project 2: Sistema de Reconhecimento Automático de Fala para Aparelhos Celulares : Desenvolvimento de Técnicas Robustas
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The purpouse of this project was to develop a ASR system for BP. Over 2 years, a team of computational linguists, engineers and programmers worked in a multi task work environment to provide a robust ASR system applied to mobile phones. It was a Rhae/CNPq project (555558/2010-0)
Felipe's Role:
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Work with linguistic computational models to enable computers to read texts aloud (ASR and TTS).
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Mining, collecting, analyzing and processing a huge amount of Brazilian Portuguese speech and text data
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Managing tools like SRLIN, Sphinx and HTK
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Creating shell scripts for text and audio manipulation
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Speech database recording (NPL)
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Multiple pronunciation customization on phonetic transcriptions levels
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Grammar rules for ASR on Portuguese
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Audio Validation (on acoustic level) for a TTS system
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Managing softwares like Praat, Transcriber, Audacity