Restricted unlimited domain synthesis

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1321-1324

  Schweitzer, Antje ^a   Braunschweiler, Norbert ^a   Klankert, Tanja ^a   Möbius, Bernd ^a   Säuberlich, Bettina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

DOMAIN SPECIFIC; RESTRICTED-DOMAIN; SPEECH DATABASE; STRUCTURE MATCHING; UNIT SELECTION; UNIT SELECTION APPROACH; UNLIMITED DOMAINS; VOCABULARY SIZE;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 33745203492     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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