Automatic detection of abnormal stress patterns in unit selection synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 170-173

  Kim, Yeon Jun ^a   Beutnagel, Mark C ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Lexical stress; Speech synthesis; Unit selection

Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ERRORS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; CLASSIFICATION RATES; NUMBER OF FALSE ALARMS; SIGNAL MODIFICATION; STRESS PATTERNS; UNIT SELECTION; WAVEFORM SYNTHESIS; CLASSIFIEDS; CORRECT ERROR; LEXICAL STRESS; MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS; SELECTION BASED;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 79959832217     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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