PROSODIC VS. SEGMENTAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO NATURALNESS IN A DIPHONE SYNTHESIZER

5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Bunnell, H T ^a   Hoskins, S R ^a   Yarrington, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

DIPHONES; NATURAL SPEECH; PROSODIC STRUCTURE; PROSODICS; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SYNTHETIC SPEECH;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0012643736     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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