Speech synthesis without a phone inventory

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2087-2090

  Aylett, Matthew P ^a,b   King, Simon ^a   Yamagishi, Junichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b CEREPROC LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Orthographic synthesis; Parametric synthesis; Phone inventory; Speech synthesis; Unit selection

Indexed keywords

CLASSIC SYSTEMS; LISTENING TESTS; ORTHOGRAPHIC SYNTHESIS; PARAMETRIC SYNTHESIS; SELF-ORGANISED; SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM; UNIT SELECTION;

ELECTRIC BATTERIES; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TELEPHONE SETS; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70450201926     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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