Concatenative speech synthesis based on the plural unit selection and fusion method

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E88-D, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2565-2572

  Mizutani, Tatsuya ^a,b,c   Kagoshima, Takehiko ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b Inst Electronics Info Commun E   (Japan)

^c IPSJ   (Japan)

Author keywords

Plural unit selection; Sense of stability and sense of voice; Speech synthesis; Unit fusion; Unit training

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

PLURAL UNIT SELECTION; SENSE OF STABILITY AND SENSE OF VOICE; UNIT FUSION; UNIT TRAINING;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 29144484191     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e88-d.11.2565     Document Type: Article

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