On the impact of annotation errors on unit-selection speech synthesis

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

Volumn 7499 LNAI, Issue , 2012, Pages 456-463

  Matoušek, Jindřich ^a   Tihelka, Daniel ^a   Šmídl, Luboš ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

annotation errors; speech synthesis; unit selection

Indexed keywords

ANNOTATION ERRORS; MANUAL ANNOTATION; SPEECH CORPORA; SYNTHESIS EXPERIMENT; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; UNIT SELECTION; UNIT-SELECTION SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SOFTWARE AGENTS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ERRORS;

EID: 84865526894     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32790-2_55     Document Type: Conference Paper

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