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Horst Juergen Schroeter

Schroeter, Horst J.
180 Park Ave - Building 103
Florham Park, NJ


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Projects
Assistive Technology, At AT&T Labs - Research, we apply our speech, language and media technologies to give people with disabilities more independence, privacy and autonomy.

AT&T Natural VoicesTM Text-to-Speech, Natural Voices is AT&T's state-of-the-art text-to-speech product, taking text and producing natural-sounding, synthesized speech in a variety of voices and languages.

AT&T WATSON (SM) Speech Technologies, AT&T WATSON (SM) integrates several speech technologies, including speech recognition. Tools allow for tuning recognition, adapting language & acoustic models, and adding custom extensions.

Technical Documents

Living rooms getting smarter with multimodal and multichannel signal processing
Dimitrios Dimitriadis, Horst Schroeter
IEEE SLTC newsletter,  2011.  [PDF]  [BIB]

IEEE Copyright

Patents

System And Method For Presenting An Avatar, April 17, 2012
Method Of Providing Dynamic Speech Processing Services During Variable Network Connectivity, April 3, 2012
Method And System For Training A Text-To-Speech Synthesis System Using A Specific Domain Speech Database, March 13, 2012
Coarticulation Method For Audio-Visual Text-To-Speech Synthesis, December 13, 2011
Audio-Visual Selection Process For The Synthesis Of Photo-Realistic Talking-Head Animations, August 2, 2011
System And Method For Blending Synthetic Voices, June 21, 2011
Voice-Enabled Dialog System, January 11, 2011
Coarticulation Method For Audio-Visual Text-To-Speech Synthesis, December 8, 2009
Service-Quality Text-To-Speech Synthesis System, September 1, 2009
System and method for blending synthetic voices, November 18, 2008
Coarticulation method for audio-visual text-to-speech synthesis, June 24, 2008
Coarticulation method for audio-visual text-to-speech synthesis, October 3, 2006
Synthesis-based pre-selection of suitable units for concatenative speech, March 14, 2006
Coarticulation method for audio-visual text-to-speech synthesis, December 9, 2003
Audio-visual selection process for the synthesis of photo-realistic talking-head animations, November 25, 2003
Automatic Detection Of Non-Stationarity In Speech Signals, March 18, 2003
Signal dependent speech modifications, November 27, 2001
Awards
IEEE Fellow, 2002. For contributions to text-to-speech synthesis technology

Science & Technology Medal, 2001. Honored for significant contributions to the creation and development of a text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system.