Prediction of pronunciation variations for speech synthesis: A data-driven approach

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

Volumn I, Issue , 2005, Pages 297-300

  Bennett, Christina L ^a   Black, Alan W ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH CODING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC MODELING TECHNIQUES; AUTOMATIC PRONUNCIATION LABELS; PRONUNCIATION DISTRIBUTION; UNIT SELECTION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33646819988     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2005.1415109     Document Type: Conference Paper

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