Conditional random fields for hierarchical segment selection in text-to-speech synthesis

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

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages 2026-2029

  Weiss, Christian ^a   Hess, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

CRF; Speech synthesis; Unit selection

Indexed keywords

SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELD; CONTEXT DEPENDENT; PARAMETRIC SYNTHESIS; SEGMENT SELECTION; SPEECH WAVEFORMS; SYNTHESIS FILTERS; TOP-DOWN SEARCHES; UNIT SELECTION;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 44949255510     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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