Method for creating phone duration models using very large, multi-speaker, automatically annotated speech corpus ; Garsų trukmių modelių kūrimo metodas, naudojant didelės apimties daugelio kalbėtojų garsyną

VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY VILNIUS UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS AND INFORMATICS Giedrius Norkevi čius METHOD FOR CREATING PHONE DURATION MODELS USING VERY LARGE MULTI-SPEAKER AUTOMATICALLY ANNOTATED SPEECH CORPUS Summary of Doctoral Dissertation Physical Sciences, Informatics (09 P) Kaunas, 2010 The research was carried out in 2004 – 2010 at Vytautas Magnus University. st thFrom October 1 , 2004 till October 24 , 2007 scientific supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Minija Tamoši ūnait ė (Vytautas Magus University, Physical Sciences, Informatics – 09P) Scientific supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gailius Raškinis (Vytautas Magus University, Physical Sciences, Informatics – 09P) The dissertation is being defended at the Joint Council of Scientific Field of Informatics of Vytautas Magnus University and Vilnius University Institute of Mathematics and Informatics: Chairman: Prof. Dr. Habil. Vytautas Kaminskas (Vytautas Magus University, Physical Sciences, Informatics – 09P) Members: Prof. Dr. Habil. Antanas Žilinskas (Vilnius University Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Physical Sciences, Informatics – 09P) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vytautas Rudžionis (Vilnius University, Technological sciences, Informatics engineering – 07T) Prof. Dr. Habil. Henrikas Pranevi čius (Kaunas University of Technology, Physical Sciences, Informatics – 09P) Prof. Dr. Habil.