A high quality text-to-speech system composed of multiple neural networks

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 1998, Pages 1237-1240

  Karaali, Orhan ^a   Corrigan, Gerald ^a   Massey, Noel ^a   Miller, Corey ^a   Schnurr, Otto ^a   Mackie, Andrew ^a  

^a MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROCESSING; FIRST SYSTEMS; HIGH QUALITY; LINGUISTIC REPRESENTATIONS; MULTIPLE NEURAL NETWORKS; TALKING HEADS; TEXT TO SPEECH; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM;

LINGUISTICS; MAPPING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 17644409283     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.1998.675495     Document Type: Conference Paper

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