Optimizing sub-cost functions for segment selection based on perceptual evaluations in concatenative speech synthesis

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Toda, Tomoki ^a,b   Kawai, Hisashi ^b   Tsuzaki, Minoru ^b  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; FUNCTIONS; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

COST FUNCTIONS; PHONETIC INFORMATION; WAVEFORM CONCATENATION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 4544270859     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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