Enhancements of viterbi search for fast unit selection synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 174-177

  Tihelka, Daniel ^a   Kala, Jiří ^a   Matousek, Jindrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Space search pruning; Speech synthesis; Unit selection; Viterbi search

Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS; VITERBI ALGORITHM; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

DEVICE RESOURCES; LISTENING TESTS; OPTIMISATIONS; SPACE SEARCH; SPEECH CORPORA; SPEECH QUALITY; UNIT SELECTION; VITERBI SEARCH; PERFORMANCE; SEARCH SPEED; SPACE SEARCH PRUNING; SPEED UP;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 79959816801     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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