The voice bank corpus: Design, collection and data analysis of a large regional accent speech database

2013 International Conference Oriental COCOSDA Held Jointly with 2013 Conference on Asian Spoken Language Research and Evaluation, O-COCOSDA/CASLRE 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Veaux, Christophe ^a   Yamagishi, Junichi ^a   King, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corpus Design; Speech Synthesis; Text Selection; Voice Banking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894152556     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSDA.2013.6709856     Document Type: Conference Paper

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