Discriminative Training for Concatenative Speech Synthesis

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 40-43

  Kim, Nam Soo ^a   Park, Seung Seop ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Discriminative training; Speech synthesis; Unit selection

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; VECTORS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

DISCRIMINATIVE TRAINING; GRADIENT DESCENT TECHNIQUE; SPEECH QUALITY; UNIT SELECTION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0346055234     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2003.819345     Document Type: Article

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