Segment pre-selection in decision-tree based speech synthesis systems

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages 937-940

  Donovan, R E ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION TREES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); ALGORITHMS; DECISION THEORY; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOUND RECORDING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PROCESSING; VECTORS;

CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; CORPUS-BASED APPROACHES; PRE-SELECTION; RUNTIME SYSTEMS; SEARCH ALGORITHMS; SPEECH DATABASE; SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM; UNIT SELECTION;

DATA MINING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; DECISION TREE; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; SPEECH DATABASE;

EID: 0033692783     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2000.859115     Document Type: Conference Paper

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