Control Concepts for Articulatory Speech Synthesis

6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 5-10

  Birkholz, Peter ^a   Steiner, Ingmar ^b   Breuer, Stefan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

APPLICATION PROSPECT; ARBITRARY INPUTS; ARTICULATORY GESTURES; CONTROL CONCEPT; PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTIONS; SPEECH SYNTHESIZER; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 77956534403     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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