GENERALIZATION AND DISCRIMINATION IN TREE-STRUCTURED UNIT SELECTION

3rd ESCA/COCOSDA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 195-200

  Macon, Michael W ^a   Cronk, Andrew E ^a   Wouters, Johan ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; LINGUISTICS;

GENERALISATION; LARGE DATABASE; LINGUISTIC FEATURES; SELECTION ALGORITHM; SELECTION BASED; SPEECH SEGMENTS; TEXT ANALYSIS; TREE-STRUCTURED; UNIT SELECTION; WAVEFORM GENERATION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 79959841814     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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