Reducing the natural click effect within database for high quality corpus-based speech synthesis

Proceedings - 8th International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications, ISSPA 2005

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 607-610

  Nicodem, Monique V ^a   Seara, Rui ^a   Pacheco, Fernando S ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

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Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

CLICK EFFECT; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEMS; WINDOWING TECHNIQUE;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33847090734     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSPA.2005.1581011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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