A modified "paIntE" model for Italian TTS

Proceedings of 2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 131-134

  Cosi, P ^a   Avesani, C ^a   Tesser, F ^b   Gretter, R ^b   Pianesi, F ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^b ITC IRST   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

APPROXIMATION FUNCTION; INTONATION MODELING; PARAMETRIZATIONS;

DIGITAL STORAGE;

EID: 33947627547     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSS.2002.1224389     Document Type: Conference Paper

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