CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS FOR EUROPEAN PORTUGUESE

3rd ESCA/COCOSDA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 159-164

  Carvalho, Pedro M ^a   Oliveira, Luís C ^a   Trancoso, Isabel M ^a   Viana, M Céu ^a  

^a INESC   (Portugal)

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Indexed keywords

'CURRENT; AUTOMATIC ALIGNMENT; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; INVENTORY DESIGNS; STATE OF THE ART; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIZERS; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM; UNIT SELECTION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 34047264231     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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