Definition of a Training Set for Unit Selection-Based Speech Synthesis

4th ITRW on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Stöber, Karlheinz ^a   Wagner, Petra ^a   Klabbers, Esther ^b   Hess, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Center for User System Interaction   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

DISTANCE MEASURE; FORMAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN PERCEPTION; NATURAL SPEECH; PHONETIC KNOWLEDGE; SELECTION BASED; SMOOTHING ALGORITHMS; TRAINING SETS; UNIT SELECTION; WAVEFORMS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 78650098254     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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