Czech expressive speech synthesis in limited domain: Comparison of unit selection and HMM-based approaches

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

Volumn 7499 LNAI, Issue , 2012, Pages 656-664

  Grůber, Martin ^a   Hanzlíček, Zdeněk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

communicative functions; expressive speech synthesis; HMM based speech synthesis; unit selection

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTIONS; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; GENERAL SOLUTIONS; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; LISTENING TESTS; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; UNIT SELECTION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84865526267     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32790-2_80     Document Type: Conference Paper

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