TD-PSOLA versus harmonic plus noise model in diphone based speech synthesis

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 1998, Pages 273-276

  Syrdal, A ^a   Stylianou, Y ^a   Garrison, L ^b   Conkie, A ^a   Schroeter, J ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

COMPUTATIONAL LOADS; DATABASE COMPRESSION; DIPHONES; HARMONIC PLUS NOISE MODEL; HIGH QUALITY; LISTENING TESTS; SMOOTHING PROBLEMS; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIZERS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 0031624617     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.1998.674420     Document Type: Conference Paper

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