HMM-based Korean speech synthesis system for hand-held devices

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1384-1390

  Kim, Sang Jin ^a   Kim, Jong Jin ^b   Hahn, Minsoo ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Context clustering; Excitation model; Korean; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

HAND HELD COMPUTERS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; USER INTERFACES;

CONTENT CLUSTERING; EXCITATION MODEL; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33846935000     PISSN: 00983063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2006.273160     Document Type: Article

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