Symbolic prosody driven unit selection for highly natural synthetic speech

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 2525-2528

  Tihelka, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CONCATENATION COSTS; PROSODIC SYNONYMY; SELECTION-BASED VERSION; SPEECH QUALITY;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 33745213550     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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