Investigating Festival's target cost function using perceptual experiments

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1873-1876

  Strom, Volker ^a   King, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Speech synthesis; Target costs; Unit selection

Indexed keywords

CARRIER SENTENCE; DIPHONES; OPTIMAL TARGET; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; TARGET COST; UNIT SELECTION; UNIT-SELECTION SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COST FUNCTIONS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

COSTS;

EID: 84867199052     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

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2. Beutnagel M. and Conkie A., "Interaction of Units in a Unit Selection Database", Proc. Eurospeech, 1999.
3. Fitt S. and Isard S., "Synthesis of regional English using a keyword lexicon", Proc. Eurospeech 1999.
4. Vepa J., King S. and Taylor P., "Objective Distance Measures for Spectral Discontinuities in Concatenative Speech Synthesis", Proc. ICSLP 2002.