Expressive prosody for unit-selection speech synthesis

INTERSPEECH 2006 and 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH 2006 - ICSLP

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 1296-1299

  Strom, Volker ^a   Clark, Robert ^a   King, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Prosody; Recording script design; Speech synthesis; Unit selection

Indexed keywords

COST FUNCTIONS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

BASELINE SYSTEMS; CURRENT UNIT; PERCEPTUAL EVALUATION; PROSODY; SPEECH DATABASE; TARGET COST; UNIT SELECTION; UNIT-SELECTION SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

AUDIO RECORDINGS;

EID: 44949128323     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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