Improving preselection in unit selection synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 585-588

  Conkie, Alistair ^a   Syrdal, Ann ^a   Kim, Yeon Jun ^a   Beutnagel, Mark ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Preselection costs; Speech synthesis; Unit selection

Indexed keywords

AUDIO DATABASE; PRE-SELECTION; PRESELECTION COSTS; SPEECH SEGMENTS; UNIT SELECTION;

COSTS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84867216487     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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