Evaluation of corpus based tone prediction in mismatched environments for Greek TtS synthesis

8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 761-764

  Zervas, P ^a   Xydas, G ^b   Fakotakis, N ^a   Kokkinakis, G ^a   Kouroupetroglou, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

10-FOLD CROSS-VALIDATION; DATA VALIDATION; GENERIC MODELS; LIMITED DOMAINS; MACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES; OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; PITCH ACCENTS; TEXT TO SPEECH;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 65849216825     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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