The Romanian speech synthesis (RSS) corpus: Building a high quality HMM-based speech synthesis system using a high sampling rate

Speech Communication

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 442-450

  Stan, Adriana ^b   Yamagishi, Junichi ^a   King, Simon ^a   Aylett, Matthew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CLUJ NAPOCA   (Romania)

^c CEREPROC LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory scale; HMMs; HTS; Romanian; Sampling frequency; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY SCALE; HMMS; HTS; ROMANIAN; SAMPLING FREQUENCY;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TEXT PROCESSING; WORD PROCESSING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 79551478696     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2010.12.002     Document Type: Article

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