Application of Genetic Algorithm in unit selection for Malay speech synthesis system

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 5376-5383

  Lim, Yee Chea ^a   Tan, Tian Swee ^a   Shaikh Salleh, Sheikh Hussain ^a   Ling, Dandy Kwong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Corpus based; Genetic Algorithm; Speech concatenation; Unit selection

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PARAMETERS; BIOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES; CORPUS BASED; CORPUS-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; CROSSOVER AND MUTATION; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH SENSITIVITY; MEL-FREQUENCY CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; SEARCH ALGORITHMS; SPEECH CONCATENATION; SPEECH DATABASE; SPEECH FEATURES; SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM; STOCHASTIC SEARCH ALGORITHMS; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; TARGET COST; UNIT SELECTION; WAVEFORM DATA;

BIOLOGY; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84855872132     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.11.047     Document Type: Article

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