Perception-guided and phonetic clustering weight tuning based on diphone pairs for unit selection TTS

8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1221-1224

  Alías, Francesc ^a   Llorà, Xavier ^b   Iriondo, Ignasi ^a   Sevillano, Xavier ^a   Formiga, Llús ^a   Socoró, Joan Claudi ^a  

^a La Salle Ramon Llull University   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

CORPUS-BASED; DIPHONES; INTERACTIVE GENETIC ALGORITHM; SUBJECTIVE PERCEPTIONS; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM; UNIT SELECTION;

COST FUNCTIONS;

EID: 79953655271     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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