A hybrid model for text-to-speech synthesis

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 426-434

  Violaro, Fábio ^a   Böeffard, Olivier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b ORANGE LABS   (France)

Author keywords

Prosodic modifications; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; DIGITAL FILTERS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

TIME DOMAIN PITCH-SYNCHRONOUS OVERLAP-ADD (TD-PSOLA) MODELS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0032164328     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.709668     Document Type: Article

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