A speech synthesizer for Persian text using a neural network with a smooth ergodic HMM

ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 38-52

  Hendessi, F ^a   Ghayoori, A ^a   Gulliver, T A ^b  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hidden Markov model; TD PSOLA

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ENGLISH LANGUAGE; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; PERSIAN SYNTHESIZER; TD-PSOLA;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 23844486811     PISSN: 15300226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1066078.1066081     Document Type: Article

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