Phonetic alignment for speech synthesis in under-resourced languages

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 880-883

  Van Niekerk, D R ^a   Barnard, E ^b  

^a CSIR MERAKA INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^b NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Phonetic speech segmentation; Resource scarce language; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT ACCURACY; CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEMS; LARGE-SCALE DEVELOPMENT; MANUAL INTERACTION; MINIMAL IDEALS; PHONETIC ALIGNMENT; PHONETIC SPEECH SEGMENTATION; RAPID DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH SEGMENTATION;

ALIGNMENT; LINGUISTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70450183793     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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