Synthesis by generation and concatenation of multiform segments

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1825-1828

  Pollet, Vincent ^a   Breen, Andrew ^a  

^a NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

HMM; Multiform segments; Speech synthesis; Statistical selection

Indexed keywords

HMM; METHODS OF SYNTHESIS; MULTIFORM SEGMENTS; SPEECH SEGMENTS; SPEECH SIGNALS; STATISTICAL FRAMEWORK; STATISTICAL SELECTION; SYNTHESIS METHOD; SYNTHESIS MODELS; SYNTHESIS TECHNIQUES; SYNTHETIC SPEECH;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84867217260     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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