Pronunciation variant selection for spontaneous speech synthesis - A summary of experimental results

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Werner, Steffen ^a   Hoffmann, Rüdiger ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

QUALITY CONTROL;

CONTROL METHODS; GRAPHEME-TO-PHONEME CONVERSION; PRONUNCIATION VARIANTS; SELECTION ALGORITHM; SPEAKING RATE; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH; STATE-OF-THE-ART SYSTEM; SYNTHESIS PROCESS; SYNTHESIZED SPEECH; VARIANT SELECTION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84910073211     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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