A probabilistic approach to unit selection for corpus-based speech synthesis

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 81-84

  Sakai, Shinsuke ^a   Shu, Han ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CORPUS-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURES; PROBABILISTIC MODELS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33745205363     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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