The IBM expressive text-to-speech synthesis system for american english

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1099-1108

  Pitrelli, John F ^a,b   Bakis, Raimo ^b   Eide, Ellen M ^b   Fernandez, Raul ^b   Hamza, Wael ^b   Picheny, Michael A ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpus driven text to speech (TTS); Expressive speech synthesis; Prosodic phonology; Text to speech (TTS); Tones and break indices (ToBI)

Indexed keywords

CORPUS DRIVEN TEXT TO SPEECH (TTS); EXPRESSIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; PROSODIC PHONOLOGY; TEXT TO SPEECH (TTS); TONES AND BREAK INDICES (TOBI);

DATA RECORDING; DECISION THEORY; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MARKUP LANGUAGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 34047275265     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2006.876123     Document Type: Article

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