The target cost formulation in unit selection speech synthesis

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

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages 2038-2041

  Taylor, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision trees; Neural networks; Speech synthesis; Target cost; Unit selection

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; NEURAL NETWORKS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ACOUSTIC SPACES; DERIVED FEATURES; HUMAN LISTENERS; RUNTIMES; TARGET COST; UNIT SELECTION; UNIT-SELECTION SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

COSTS;

EID: 44949153641     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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