Corpus-based Mandarin speech synthesis with contextual syllabic units based on phonetic properties

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 1998, Pages 893-896

  Chou, Fu Chiang ^a   Tseng, Chiu Yu ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CO-ARTICULATION; PHONETIC PROPERTIES; PROSODIC MODIFICATIONS; PROSODIC PARAMETER; SELECTION CRITERIA; SPEECH CORPORA; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM; UNIT CONCATENATION;

SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 0003386897     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.1998.675409     Document Type: Conference Paper

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