A method for combining intonation modelling and speech unit selection in corpus-based speech synthesis systems

Speech Communication

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 941-956

  Campillo Díaz, Francisco ^a   Rodríguez Banga, Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Corpus based; Intonation; Speech synthesis; Unit selection

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

CORPUS-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEMS; INTONATION MODELLING; PITCH CONTOURS; UNIT SELECTION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33745372264     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2005.12.004     Document Type: Article

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