Database mining for flexible concatenative text-to-speech

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

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Eide, Ellen M ^a   Fernandez, Raul ^a  

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

Author keywords

Speech analysis; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

CONTEXTUAL VARIABILITY; PROSODIC PROMINENCE; TEXT-TO-SPEECH DATABASE; VOICE QUALITY;

DATA MINING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; USER INTERFACES;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 34547540053     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2007.367008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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