Improving quality of MBROLA synthesis for non-uniform units synthesis

Proceedings of 2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 7-10

  Bozkurt, B ^a   Dutoit, T ^a   Prudon, R ^b   D'Alessandro, C ^b   Pagel, V ^a  

^a Multitel   (Belgium)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; SPEECH; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

COMPUTATIONAL LOADS; CONCATENATION SYNTHESIS; CONSTANT PHASE; DATABASE PRE-PROCESSING; PHASE ENVELOPE; SIGNAL QUALITY; SPECTRAL SMOOTHING; UNIT SELECTION;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 79955636094     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSS.2002.1224360     Document Type: Conference Paper

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