Efficient interactive weight tuning for tts synthesis: Reducing user fatigue by improving user consistency

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Alías, Francesc ^a   Llorà, Xavier ^b   Formiga, Lluís ^a   Sastry, Kumara ^b   Goldberg, David E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT RAMON LLULL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE WEIGHT TUNING; PERCEPTUAL PREFERENCES; SELECTION PROCESSES;

COST FUNCTIONS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; TUNING;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33947634558     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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