Control of spectral dynamics in concatenative speech synthesis

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 30-38

  Wouters, Johan ^a   Macon, Michael W ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; MARKOV PROCESSES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ARTICULATION EFFORT; CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPECTRAL DYNAMICS; SPEECH MODIFICATION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0035124445     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.890069     Document Type: Article

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