A fusion approach for automatic speech segmentation of large corpora with application to speech synthesis

Speech Communication

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 67-80

  Jarifi, Safaa ^a   Pastor, Dominique ^a   Rosec, Olivier ^b  

^a ECOLE DES MINES DE NANTES   (France)

^b ORANGE LABS   (France)

Author keywords

Automatic speech segmentation; Boundary model; Brandt's GLR algorithm; Hard supervision; HMM; Soft supervision; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH SEGMENTATION; BRANDT'S GLR ALGORITHM; HARD SUPERVISION; SOFT SUPERVISION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 35348856844     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2007.07.001     Document Type: Article

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