ALIGNING LETTERS AND PHONEMES FOR SPEECH SYNTHESIS

5th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 209-214

  Damper, Robert I ^a,b   Marchand, Yannick ^b   Marsters, John David ^a   Bazin, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

AUTOMATIC ALIGNMENT; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; EXPECTATIONS MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; HARD PROBLEMS; MANUAL ALIGNMENT; PERFORMANCE; SEARCH SPACES; SPEECH TECHNOLOGY; START POINT; SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 33644967336     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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