Challenges and rewards in using parametric or concatenative speech synthesis

International Journal of Speech Technology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 117-131

  Henton, Caroline ^a  

^a Talknowledgy   (United States)

Author keywords

Compared; Concatenative speech synthesis; Parametric speech synthesis; Techniques

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; PARAMETRIC SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0036575235     PISSN: 13812416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015416013198     Document Type: Article

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