Analysis and Synthesis of Hypo and Hyperarticulated Speech

7th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 270-275

  Picart, Benjamin ^a   Drugman, Thomas ^a   Dutoit, Thierry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Expressive Speech; HTS; Speech Analysis; Speech Synthesis; Voice Quality

Indexed keywords

QUALITY CONTROL; TELEPHONE SETS;

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS; BASE ANALYSIS; DATABASE MATCHING; EXPRESSIVE-SPEECH; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; HTS; PHONETIC ANALYSIS; SYNTHESISED; VOICE QUALITY;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84865785816     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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