Database pruning for unsupervised building of text-to-speech voices

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Adell, Jordi ^a   Agüero, Pablo Daniel ^a   Bonafonte, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION; QUALITY SYSTEMS; SEGMENTATION ERRORS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33947621608     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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