A selection/concatenation text-to-speech synthesis system: databases development, system design, comparative evaluation

4th ITRW on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Prudon, Romain ^a   d'Alessandro, Christophe ^a  

^a UFR 919 Laboratoire d'Informatique Pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur   (France)

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Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; DATA BASE; DATABASE DESIGN; DATABASE DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS; NATURAL SPEECH; SPEECH DATA; SPEECH SEGMENTS; SYSTEM DATABASE; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

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