Refined inter-segment joining in multi-form speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 790-794

  Sorin, Alexander ^a   Shechtman, Slava ^a   Pollet, Vincent ^b  

^a IBM HAIFA RESEARCH LAB   (Israel)

^b Nuance Communications   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Hybrid speech synthesis; Multi form synthesis; Pitch smoothing; Spectral smoothing; Speech synthesis; Text to speech

Indexed keywords

JOINING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

PARAMETRIC REPRESENTATIONS; PITCH MODIFICATION; PITCH SMOOTHING; SMOOTHING ALGORITHMS; SMOOTHING METHODS; SPECTRAL SMOOTHING; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; TEXT TO SPEECH;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84910091105     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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