Corpus-Based Speech Synthesis

Springer Handbooks

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 437-456

  Dutoit, Thierry ^a  

^a FACULTÉ POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Automatic Speech Recognition; Automatic Speech Recognition System; Spectral Envelope; Speech Corpus; Speech Synthesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 68949165450     PISSN: 25228692     EISSN: 25228706     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-49127-9_21     Document Type: Chapter

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