Phonetic alignment: Speech synthesis-based vs. Viterbi-based

Speech Communication

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 503-515

  Malfrere F ^a,b   Deroo, O ^a,b   Dutoit, T ^a   Ris, C ^a  

^a FACULTÉ POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONS   (Belgium)

^b Babel Technologies SA   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Hidden Markov models; Hybrid HMM ANN systems; Large speech corpora; Speech segmentation; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMM);

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0037850986     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(02)00131-0     Document Type: Article

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