Text-to-speech synthesis

Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Volumn 9780521899277, Issue , 2009, Pages 1-597

  Taylor, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING SIGNAL SYSTEMS; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; LINGUISTICS; MARKOV PROCESSES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; STUDENTS;

GRADUATE STUDENTS; HUMAN COMMUNICATIONS; PRACTICAL SYSTEMS; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; SPEECH SIGNALS; TEXT ANALYSIS; TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES; UNIT SELECTION;

AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84925160976     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511816338     Document Type: Book

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