Recent improvements to the IBM trainable speech synthesis system

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 708-711

  Eide, E ^a   Aaron, A ^a   Bakis, R ^a   Cohen, P ^a   Donovan, R ^a   Hamza, W ^a   Mathes, T ^a   Picheny, M ^a   Polkosky, M ^b   Smith, M ^b   Viswanathan, M ^a  

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

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEAN OPINION SCORE (MOS);

ALGORITHMS; AUDIO SYSTEMS; COSTS; MARKOV PROCESSES;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0141702290     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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