Context-adaptive phone boundary refining for a TTS database

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 252-255

  Lee, Ki Seung ^a   Kim, Jeong Su ^b  

^a Konkuk University   (South Korea)

^b Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TEXT-TO-SPEECH (TTS) SYNTHESIS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0141703272     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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