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Forward Attention in Sequence-to-sequence Acoustic Modelling for Speech Synthesis
This paper proposes a forward attention method for the sequenceto- sequence
acoustic modeling of speech synthesis. This method is motivated by the nature
of the monotonic alignment from phone sequences to acoustic sequences. Only the
alignment paths that satisfy the monotonic condition are taken into
consideration at each decoder timestep. The modified attention probabilities at
each timestep are computed recursively using a forward algorithm. A transition
agent for forward attention is further proposed, which helps the attention
mechanism to make decisions whether to move forward or stay at each decoder
timestep. Experimental results show that the proposed forward attention method
achieves faster convergence speed and higher stability than the baseline
attention method. Besides, the method of forward attention with transition
agent can also help improve the naturalness of synthetic speech and control the
speed of synthetic speech effectively.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables. Published in IEEE International
Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing 2018 (ICASSP2018
Power Transfer System
A power transfer system and method are provided for transferring power from an AC supply outputting an AC voltage. The system includes a controller and a primary rectifier coupled to the controller and to the AC supply for converting the AC voltage to a DC bus voltage. An inverter is coupled with the primary rectifier and the controller for converting the DC bus voltage to a primary AC voltage. A primary coil is connected to the inverter. A secondary coil is in communication with the primary coil for producing an induced AC voltage. A secondary rectifier is connected to the secondary coil for rectifying the induced AC voltage to a secondary DC voltage. At least one sensor is connected to the secondary rectifier for outputting a signal proportional to the secondary DC voltage and the controller is configured to vary the DC bus voltage based on the signal from the sensor
Power Transfer System
A power transfer system and method are provided for transferring power from an AC supply outputting a first AC voltage. The system includes a controller and a matrix converter coupled to the AC supply for converting the first AC voltage to a second AC voltage. A primary coil is connected to the matrix converter and a secondary coil is in communication with the primary coil for producing an induced AC voltage. A secondary rectifier is connected to the secondary coil for rectifying the induced AC voltage to produce a secondary DC voltage. A sensor is coupled to the secondary rectifier and to the controller for monitoring the secondary DC voltage and outputting a proportional signal. The controller is configured to control the matrix converter producing a desired second AC voltage at a desired operating frequency and maintain a predetermined secondary DC voltage in response to the signal from the sensor
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