On using multiple models for automatic speech segmentation

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2202-2212

  Park, Seung Seop ^a   Kim, Nam Soo ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Automatic speech segmentation; Speech synthesis; Unit selection

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; AUTOMATIC SPEECH SEGMENTATION; BIAS PARAMETERS; CONTEXT DEPENDENTS; GRADIENT PROJECTION METHODS; MANUAL SEGMENTATIONS; MULTIPLE MODELS; PARAMETER SPACES; SELECTION BASED; SQUARED ERRORS; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEMS; TRAINING PROCEDURES; UNIT SELECTION; WEIGHTED SUMS;

DECISION TREES; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; THREE TERM CONTROL SYSTEMS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 64149096086     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2007.903933     Document Type: Article

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