A global, boundary-centric framework for unit selection text-to-speech synthesis

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 990-997

  Bellegarda, Jerome R ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b APPLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Discontinuity perception; Distance measure; Join cost; Modal analysis; Segment concatenation; Text to speech synthesis; Unit selection

Indexed keywords

DISCONTINUITY PERCEPTION; DISTANCE MEASURE; JOIN COST; SEGMENT CONCATENATION; UNIT SELECTION;

BANDWIDTH; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MODAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33846261409     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.858048     Document Type: Article

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