Performance evaluation and comparison of multilingual speech synthesizers for Indian languages

2013 International Conference on Recent Trends in Information Technology, ICRTIT 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 590-595

  Jeeva, M P Actlin ^a   Ramani, B ^a   Vijayalakshmi, P ^a  

^a SSN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ACOUSTIC SIMILARITIES; CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; EXTRACTING FEATURES; MEAN OPINION SCORES; MULTILINGUAL SYSTEM; SPEECH SYNTHESIZER; STATE-OF-THE-ART APPROACH; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84894299894     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRTIT.2013.6844268     Document Type: Conference Paper

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