Synthesising hyperarticulation in unit selection TTS

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 2521-2524

  Aylett, Matthew P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST FUNCTIONS; DIPHONES; HYPER-ARTICULATED SPEECH; WORD TRIGRAM PREDICTABILITY;

CORRELATION METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; RANDOM PROCESSES; REDUNDANCY;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33745200056     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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