On the Role of Duration Prediction and Symbolic Representation for the Evaluation of Synthetic Speech

4th ITRW on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Brinckmann, Caren ^a   Trouvain, Jürgen ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING;

% REDUCTIONS; DURATION MODELLING; DURATION PREDICTIONS; FINE TUNING; PERCEPTION EXPERIMENT; SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33845895827     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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