Sub-phonetic modeling for capturing pronunciation variations for conversational speech synthesis

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Prahallad, Kishore ^a   Black, Alan W ^a   Mosur, Ravishankhar ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TOPOLOGY;

PRONUNCIATION VARIATIONS; SEQUENTIAL MODELS; SPEECH PRODUCTION PROCESSES;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 33947674781     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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