An evaluation of automatic phone segmentation for concatenative speech synthesis

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Kawai, Hisashi ^a   Toda, Tomoki ^b  

^a ATR Spoken Lang Transl Res Labs   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERCEPTION TESTS; PHONE SEGMENTATION; SYNTHETIC SPEECHES;

AUTOMATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 4544324769     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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