Reducing spectral mismatches in concatenative speech synthesis via systematic database enrichment.

EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 837-840

  Founda, Maria ^a   Tambouratzis, George ^a   Chalamandaris, Aimilios ^a   Carayannis, George ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; DATABASE ENRICHMENT; IT FOCUS; SPECTRAL DISTANCES; SPECTRAL MISMATCH; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; TIME DOMAIN; TTS SYSTEMS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0000639656     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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