A SYNTHESIS METHOD BASED ON CONCATENATION OF DEMISYLLABLES AND A RESIDUAL EXCITED VOCAL TRACT MODEL

5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Pearson, Steve ^a   Kibre, Nicholas ^a   Niedzielski, Nancy ^a  

^a Panasonic Corporation of North America   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DESIGN DECISIONS; HIGH QUALITY; SPEECH QUALITY; SYNTHESIS METHOD; TTS SYSTEMS; VOCAL TRACT MODELS; WAVEFORMS;

EID: 56149094130     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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