Optimal Utterance Selection for Unit Selection Speech Synthesis Databases

International Journal of Speech Technology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 357-363

  Black, Alan W ^a   Lenzo, Kevin ^a  

^a 4525 NSH/LTI ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Database inventories; Speech synthesis; Unit selection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

UNIT SELECTION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0142153902     PISSN: 13812416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025704800086     Document Type: Conference Paper

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