Unit Selection Synthesis Using Long Non-Uniform Units and Phonemic Identity Matching

6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 270-275

  Latacz, Lukas ^a   Kong, Yuk On ^a   Verhelst, Werner ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DIPHONES; MATCHINGS; NON-UNIFORM; SPEECH DATABASE; TARGET SPECIFICATIONS; TWO WAYS; UNIT SELECTION;

EID: 84929634396     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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