University of Stuttgart
Institute of Natural Language Processing
Experimental Phonetics Group
Azenbergstr. 12
D-70174 Stuttgart, Germany
Between August 1994 and October 2001 I was a member of the Experimental Phonetics group at the Institute of the Institute of Natural Language Processing (IMS), University of Stuttgart. My main research interest is speech synthesis. I am responsible for the development of the IMS German Festival system, a complete Text-to-speech system based on Festival technology. In my dissertation I worked on prosodic aspects of speech synthesis including a trainable parametric model of intonation prediction. Until 2001 I was coordinating the speech output module within the SmartKom project, a German government founded project dealing with multimodal human-machine interaction.
IMS
German Festival (1996 ongoing): Development a complete German Text-to-speech
system
(download
open source version)
Linguistic Modeling in speech prosody (1999-2001): DFG project
Parametric Intonation Events 'PaIntE' (1998): Project at AT&T Research Labs (see Möhler & Conkie 1998; Möhler to appear)
PSOLA module for CHATR & Detection of Creaky Voice in Speech Signals (1996): Projects at ATR-ITL Research Laboratories (see Möhler 1996a,b)
Dissertation (1994-98): Theory-based intonation modeling for German speech synthesis (see Möhler 1998b)
Möhler, Gregor (to appear). Improvements of the PaIntE model for F0 parametrization. Research Papers from the Phonetics Lab, AIMS Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung (Draft version)
Möhler, Gregor and Mayer, Jörg (2001). A Discourse Model for Pitch-Range Control. 4th ISCA workshop on Speech Synthesis Perthshire, Scotland.
Batliner, Anton; Möbius, Bernd; Möhler, Gregor; Schweitzer, Antje and Nöth, Elmar (2001). Prosodic models, automatic speech understanding, and speech synthesis: towards the common ground. Proceedings of the European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Aalborg, Denmark) volume 4 pp. 2285-2288 ISCA. Postscript
Matthias Jilka, Gregor Möhler and Grzegorz Dogil (1999).
Rules for the Generation of ToBI-based American English Intonation. Speech Communication 28, pp. 83 - 108.
Möhler, Gregor (1999). Comparing
two different principles of parametric F0 modeling. Proceedings
of the Joint ASA/DAGA Meeting Berlin.
G. Möhler & J. Mayer (1999). A
Method for the analysis of prosodic registers. Proceedings of Eurospeech
1999, Budapest.
Gregor Möhler & Alistair Conkie
(1998). Parametric
modeling of intonation using vector quantization. Proceedings of
3rd ESCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, Jenolan Caves, Australia.
Ann Syrdal, Gregor Möhler, Kurt Dusterhoff,
Alistair Conkie & Alan W. Black (1998). Three
methods of intonation modeling. Proceedings of 3rd ESCA Workshop
on Speech Synthesis, Jenolan Caves, Australia.
Gregor Möhler (1998a). Describing
intonation with a parametric model. Proceedings of ICSLP98, Sydney.
Grzegorz Dogil & Gregor Möhler
(1998). Phonetic
invariance and phonological stability: Lithuanian pitch accents.
Proceedings of ICSLP98, Sydney.
Gregor Möhler (1998b). Theoriebasierte
Modellierung der deutschen Intonation für die Sprachsynthese (Theory-based
intonation modelling for German speech synthesis). Dissertation. University
of Stuttgart.
G. Dogil and J. Kuhn and J. Mayer and G.
Möhler and S. Rapp (1997).
Prosody
and discourse structure: issues and experiments. Proceedings of
the ESCA Workshop on Intonation: Theory, Models and Applications, Athens,
Greece, pp.99-102.
G. Bruce, G. Dogil, M. Filipsson, M. Jilka,
B. Lastow, J. Mayer & G. Möhler (1996). Testing
intonational models by computer simulation. Paper presented at
the 5th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon), Northwestern University,
Evanston/Illinois, July 6-8 1996.
Gregor Möhler (1996a). PSOLA module
for CHATR. Technical Report TR-IT-0170, ATR Interpreting Telecommunications
Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan. (Abstract)
Gregor Möhler (1996b). Detection
of Creaky Voice in Speech Signals. Technical Report TR-IT-0181, ATR
Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan, 1996.
(Abstract)
Gregor Möhler & Grzegorz Dogil
(1995). Test
Environment for the Two Level Model of Germanic Prominence. Proceedings
EUROSPEECH Madrid, pp.1019-1022. (Abstract)
Gregor Möhler (1995). Rule
Based Generation of Fundamental Frequency Contours for German Utterances.
Proceedings of the 2nd 'Speak!' Workshop , Darmstadt. (Abstract)
Speech synthesis I (WS1998/99,WS1999/00): Introduction to speech synthesis: applications, text-to-speech, Klatt-synthesizer, Diphone concatenation.
Speech synthesis II (SS1998): From text to speech using the IMS German Festival text-to-speech synthesis program.
An interactive version of our German Festival text-to-speech system.
The speaking Stuttgart metro information system.
Teaching speech synthesis. A preliminary site of the ESCA Special Interest Group in speech synthesis (SynSIG).