Development and evaluation of unit selection and HMM-based speech synthesis systems for Tamil

2013 National Conference on Communications, NCC 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Boothalingam, Ramani ^a   Sherlin Solomi, V ^a   Gladston, Anushiya Rachel ^a   Christina, S Lilly ^a   Vijayalakshmi, P ^a   Thangavelu, Nagarajan ^a   Murthy, Hema A ^b  

^a SSN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION;

HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; HUMAN LISTENERS; PARAMETRIC SYNTHESIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIZER; SUB-WORD UNITS; SYNTHESIZED SPEECH; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM; UNIT SELECTION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84894409971     PISSN: 15503607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NCC.2013.6487984     Document Type: Conference Paper

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