Automatic detection of unnatural word-level segments in unit-selection speech synthesis

2011 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2011, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 289-294

  Wang, William Yang ^a,b   Georgila, Kallirroi ^c  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

^c University of Southern California   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELDS (CRFS); FEATURE TYPES; LANGUAGE MODEL; MODELING METHOD; RANDOM FORESTS; TERM FREQUENCY-INVERSE DOCUMENT FREQUENCIES; UNIT-SELECTION SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DECISION TREES; ERROR ANALYSIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84858985804     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2011.6163946     Document Type: Conference Paper

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