A comparison of spectral smoothing methods for segment concatenation based speech synthesis

Speech Communication

Volumn 36, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 343-373

  Chappell, David T ^a,b   Hansen, John H L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Spectral interpolation; Spectral smoothing; Speech coding; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INTERPOLATION; SPEECH CODING;

SPECTRAL INTERPOLATION; SPECTRAL SMOOTHING;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0036497601     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(01)00008-5     Document Type: Article

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