TOWARDS PHONE SEGMENTATION FOR CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS

5th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 139-144

  Adell, Jordi ^a   Bonafonte, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELEPHONE SETS;

CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; MANUAL SEGMENTATION; NEW APPROACHES; REGRESSION TREES; STATE OF THE ART;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33645793767     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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