Development of a rule-based speech synthesis system for the Japanese language using a MELP vocoder

European Signal Processing Conference

Volumn 2015-March, Issue March, 2000, Pages

  Aoki, Naofumi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; VOCODERS;

LINEAR PREDICTIVE CODING; MIXED EXCITATION LINEAR PREDICTIONS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM; SPEECH SYNTHESIZER; SYNTHESIS TECHNIQUES; SYNTHESIZED SPEECH; VOICE QUALITY; VOICED SPEECH;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84937057632     PISSN: 22195491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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