HIGH-QUALITY SPEECH SYNTHESIS FOR PHONETIC SPEECH SEGMENTATION

5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1997

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 2631-2634

  Malfrere F ^a   Dutoit, T ^a  

^a Service d'Automatique   (Belgium)

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Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

HIGH QUALITY; HIGH QUALITY SPEECH SYNTHESIS; KEYPOINTS; PHONETIC SEGMENTATION; ROMANIANS; SPEECH DATABASE; SPEECH PATTERNS; SPEECH SEGMENTATION; SPEECH SIGNALS; SPEECH SYNTHESIZER;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0004565879     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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