Optimal Data Selection for Unit Selection Synthesis

4th ITRW on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Black, Alan W ^a   Lenzo, Kevin A ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC METHOD; DATA SELECTION; HIGH QUALITY; LARGE DATABASE; OPTIMAL COVERAGE; OPTIMAL DATA; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM; UNIT SELECTION;

EID: 84860515459     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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