LSM-based boundary training for concatenative speech synthesis

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Bellegarda, Jerome R ^a  

^a APPLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVEFORM; BOUNDARY OPTIMIZATION; BOUNDARY REGIONS; CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33947709444     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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