A bilingual HMM-based speech synthesis system for closely related languages

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7499 LNAI, Issue , 2012, Pages 543-550

  Justin, Tadej ^a   Pobar, Miran ^b   Ipšić, Ivo ^b   Mihelič, France ^a   Žibert, Janez ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b University of Rijeka   (Croatia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRIMORSKA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

bilingual speech synthesis; Croatian synthesis; HMM speech synthesis; Slovenian synthesis

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODEL; BASIC BUILDING BLOCK; CROATIAN LANGUAGE; CROATIANS; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; SPEECH MATERIALS; SYNTHESIZED SPEECH;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84865467329     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32790-2_66     Document Type: Conference Paper

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