Annotation errors detection in TTS corpora

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1511-1515

  Matoušek, Jindřich ^a   Tihelka, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Annotation error detection; Classification; Novelty detection; Read speech corpora; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); ERROR DETECTION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ANNOTATION ERRORS; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; DETECTION METHODS; NEAREST NEIGHBORS; NOVELTY DETECTION; OUTLIER DETECTION; PRECISION AND RECALL; SPEECH CORPORA;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84906228629     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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