Cristina España-Bonet

LaFresCat: A studio-quality Catalan multi-accent speech dataset for text-to-speech synthesis

2026 · Computer Speech & Language

Current text-to-speech (TTS) systems are capable of learning the phonetics of a language accurately given that the speech data used to train such models covers all phonetic phenomena. For languages with different varieties, this includes …

An Empirical Analysis of NMT-Derived Interlingual Embeddings and Their Use in Parallel Sentence Identification

2017 · IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing

End-to-end neural machine translation has overtaken statistical machine translation in terms of translation quality for some language pairs, specially those with large amounts of parallel data. Besides this palpable improvement, neural networks provide several new …