MLP-based phone boundary refining for a TTS database

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 981-989

  Lee, Ki Seung ^a,b  

^a Konkuk University ^*

^b Konkuk University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Automatic labeling; Multilayer perceptron; Phoneme boundary refinement; Text to spccch synthesis

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC LABELING; PHONE BOUNDARIES; PHONEME BOUNDARY REFINEMENT; PHONETIC TRANSITION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 34047273929     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.858049     Document Type: Article

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