Other IFA papers

Student Projects

• Course materials
• Acoustic-Phonetic analysis of children's /r/, Tanja Kocjančič, University of Ljublijana, Slovenia, IFA report 144 (draft), 2004
• Frisian TTS
• Design of a Frisian Speech Synthesizer and Appendices (Dutch)
• Frisian TTS, an example of bootstrapping TTS for minority languages presented at the 5th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, Pittsburg, USA
• A full implementation of FRYSS, the Frisian Speech Synthesizer still with the Dutch voice (English)
• Spoken Language Generation course 2004
• An online game chat mode for Festival and the scheme script to implement it (English)
• Implement Dutch Number synthesis from scratch for Festival and the compressed sources (Dutch)
• Spoken Language Generation course 2005
• A reading program for fairy tales, using "expressive" speech
• Spoken Language Generation course 2006
• Another reading of fairy tales, using "expressive" speech
• Materials for another reading of fairy tales
• Spoken Language Generation course 2007
• A Latin TTS system, based on eSpeak
• Materials
• Spoken Language Generation course and Speech Technology Project 2008
• Language synthesis using image placement by S.A.M.M. de Konink (CC license, see text)
• Language synthesis using image placement; a practical implementation of language agnostic, imagery based speech synthesis by A. Bronner and S.A.M.M. de Konink, FNWI, University of Amsterdam. (CC, Non Commercial, Attribution, Share Alike license).
• Java demo software can be found at and STP2008.jar based on eSpeak and Box2D (see README file for instructions)
• Speech Technology Project 2004: Design of a Dutch Speech Recognizer
• The final report 2004
• Design of a Kinyarwanda Speech Recognizer, by Muhirwe Jackson of Makarere University, Kampala Uganda
• Kinyarwanda final report 2005
  Muhirwe Jackson kindly allowed us to host his Masters Thesis in Computer Science
• Speech Technology Project 2006: Comparing models of L2 vowel perception using simulation and visualization
• The final report 2006
• Speech Technology Project 2007: Unsupervised Distributional Learning of Vowel Contrasts in L2 Acquisition
• The final report 2007