Optimizing segment label boundaries for statistical speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3785-3788

  Black, Alan W ^a   Kominek, John ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Label boundary optimization; Parametric speech synthesis; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SIZE; LISTENING TESTS; OBJECTIVE MEASURE; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; PARAMETRIC SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ACOUSTICS; LABELS; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 70349208664     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4960451     Document Type: Conference Paper

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