Unit-SelectionText-to-SpeechSynthesis Using an Asynchronous Interpolation Model

6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 172-177

  Kain, Alexander ^a,b   van Santen, Jan P H ^a,b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BioSpeech Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; QUALITY CONTROL; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

BASIS VECTOR; COMPLEX SPECTRUM; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING METHODS; FORMANT FREQUENCY; HIGH RATE; LABELING SCHEME; SYNTHESIZED SPEECH; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIZERS; TRANSITION WEIGHT; UNIT SELECTION;

INTERPOLATION;

EID: 77953816641     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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