Further developments in LSM-based boundary training for unit selection TTS

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

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 1320-1323

  Bellegarda, Jerome R ^a  

^a APPLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary optimization; Discontinuity perception; Segment concatenation; Speech synthesis; Unit selection

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

BOUNDARY REGIONS; FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; ITERATIVE REFINEMENT; LISTENING TESTS; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; SEGMENT CONCATENATION; UNIT SELECTION;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 44949196051     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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