Perceptual cost functions for unit searching in large corpus-based concatenative text-To-speech

EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 2227-2230

  Lee, Minkyu ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

DISSIMILARITY MEASURES; DOWNHILL SIMPLEX METHOD; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING ALGORITHM; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SEARCH; QUALITY DEGRADATION; RELATIVE SENSITIVITY; TARGET SPECIFICATIONS; WEIGHT OPTIMIZATION;

COST FUNCTIONS;

EID: 82955189067     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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