Paraphrase generation to improve text-to-speech synthesis

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 198-201

  Putois, Ghislain ^a   Chevelu, Jonathan ^a   Boidin, Cédric ^a  

^a ORANGE LABS   (France)

Author keywords

Europarl; Speech synthesis; Statistical paraphrase; Synthesis costs; Unit selection

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

EUROPARL; SPECIFIC TASKS; STATISTICAL PARAPHRASE; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; TEXT TO SPEECH; TEXT TO SPEECH SYNTHESIZERS; UNIT SELECTION; BILINGUALS; LEARN+; PERFORMANCE; SYNTHESIS COST; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIZERS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 79959812756     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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