Letter-based speech synthesis

7th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 317-322

  Watts, Oliver ^a   Yamagishi, Junichi ^a   King, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

graphemes; HMM based speech synthesis; letter to sound conversion; Statistical parametric speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

COMPOUND FEATURES; CONTEXT CLUSTERING; GRAPHEME; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; HMM-BASED SYSTEMS; LETTER TO SOUND CONVERSION; STATISTICAL PARAMETRIC SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TEXT-TO-SPEECH CONVERSION; TREE-BASED; TTS SYSTEMS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84874234632     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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