Prosody modeling for syllable-based concatenative speech synthesis of Hindi and Tamil

2011 National Conference on Communications, NCC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Bellur, Ashwin ^a   Narayan, K Badri ^a   Raghava Krishnan, K ^a   Murthy, Hema A ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Cluster unit synthesis; Phrase boundaries; Speech synthesis; Unit selection

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER UNITS; CO-ARTICULATION; CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEMS; DIPHONES; HYBRID APPROACH; INDIAN LANGUAGES; PHRASE BOUNDARY; PROSODY MODELING; RULE BASED; STATISTICAL MODELS; UNIT SELECTION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 79954441854     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NCC.2011.5734737     Document Type: Conference Paper

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