Subjective evaluation of join cost and smoothing methods for unit selection speech synthesis

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1763-1771

  Vepa, Jithendra ^b   King, Simon ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Join cost; Linear dynamic models (LDM); Perceptual listening tests; Smoothing; Speech synthesis; Unit selection

Indexed keywords

JOIN COSTS; LINEAR DYNAMIC MODELS (LDM); PERCEPTUAL LISTENING TESTS; SMOOTHING; UNIT SELECTION;

COST FUNCTIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 34047258869     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.858548     Document Type: Article

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