FORCED ALIGNMENT FOR SPEECH SYNTHESIS DATABASES USING DURATION AND PROSODIC PHRASE BREAKS

5th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 225-226

  Toth, Arthur R ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ALIGNMENT TECHNIQUE; PROSODICS;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 77954238053     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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