Statistical modeling for unit selection in speech synthesis

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 55-62

  Allauzen, Cyril ^a   Mohri, Mehryar ^a   Riley, Michael ^a,b  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; STATISTICS;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEMS; HIGH QUALITY; MODELLING FRAMEWORK; MODULARS; SELECTION SYSTEMS; SPEECH SYNTHESIZER; STATISTIC MODELING; SYSTEM USE; UNIT SELECTION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 77950556006     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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