New CTMedia paper published in "Quaderns del CAC"

A new paper entitled "Aplicació de tècniques de generació automàtica de la parla en producció audiovisual" (Application of automated speech generation for audiovisual production) has been published by CTMedia researchers Dr. Francesc Alías, Dr. Ignasi Iriondo and Dr. Joan Claudi Socoró in the "Quaderns del CAC", the journal of the Catalan Audiovisual Council. Abstract This article presents a summary of the research work of the same title, developed thanks to the grant awarded by the CAC in the VII call of research projects on audiovisual communication. After studying the degree of implementation of speech synthesis systems in Catalonia, we analyze the feasibility of its use for the creation of audiovisual productions. This article presents the findings of the field study and the experiments developed after adapting the speech synthesis system of La Salle (Universitat Ramon Llull) to the Catalan language. Keywords speech synthesis, audiovisual productions, audio description, subjective assessment of quality. Link to the paper here.