Using estimated formants tracks for formants smoothing in text to speech (TTS) synthesis

2003 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 688-693

  Low, Phuay Hui ^a   Ho, Ching Hsiang ^b   Vaseghi, Saeed ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b FORTUNE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPEECH; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

DIRECT MODIFICATION; FORMANT FREQUENCY; NATURAL SPEECH; SMOOTHING METHODS; SPECTRAL SMOOTHING; SPECTRUM SHAPE; SPEECH SEGMENTS; TEXT TO SPEECH;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70450201855     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2003.1318523     Document Type: Conference Paper

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