Comparative study of automatic phone segmentation methods for TTS

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

Volumn I, Issue , 2005, Pages 309-312

  Adell, Jordi ^a   Bonafonte, Antonio ^a   Gómez, Jon Ander ^b   Castro, María José ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ACOUSTICAL CLUSTERING; BOUNDARY DETECTION; DYNAMIC TIME WARPING; PERCEPTUAL EVALUATIONS;

SPEECH;

EID: 33646814337     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2005.1415112     Document Type: Conference Paper

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