NATURAL-SOUNDING SPEECH SYNTHESIS USING VARIABLE-LENGTH UNITS

5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Yi, Jon R W ^a   Glass, James R ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEARCH ENGINES; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEMS; CONTEXTUAL CONSTRAINTS; INFORMATION-RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM; SUB WORDS; SUBWORD UNITS; SYSTEM RESPONSE; UNIT-BASED; VARIABLE LENGTH; VITERBI SEARCH;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84944950708     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (11)

1. E. C. Albano and P. A. Aquino, “Linguistic criteria for building and recording units for concatenative speech synthesis in brazilian portoguese,” in Proc. Eurospeech, Rhodes, Greece, pp. 725-728, Sept. 1997.
2. N. Campbell, “CHATR: A high-definition speech re-sequencing system,” Acoustical Society of America and Acoustical Society of Japan, Third Joint Meeting, Dec. 1996.
3. J. Glass, Nasal Consonants and Nasalized Vowels: An Acoustic Study and Recognition Experiment. S.M. thesis, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 1984.
4. J. Glass, J. Polifroni, and S. Seneff, “Multilingual language generation across multiple domains,” in Proc. ICSLP, Yokohama, Japan, pp. 983-986, Sept. 1994.
5. X. Huang, A. Acero, J. Adcock, H. Hon, J. Goldsmith, J. Liu, and M. Plumpe, “Whistler: A trainable text-to-speech system,” in Proc. ICSLP, Philadelphia, PA, pp. 2387-2390, Oct. 1996.
6. A. J. Hunt and A. W. Black, “Unit selection in a concatenative speech synthesis system using a large speech database,” in Proc. ICASSP, Atlanta, GA, pp. 373-376, May 1996.
7. R. Kassel, “Automating the design of compact linguistic corporation,” in Proc. ICSLP, Yokohama, Japan, pp. 1827-1830, Sept. 1994.
8. H. Meng, S. Busayapongchai, J. Glass, D. Goddeau, L. Hetherington, E. Hurley, C. Pao, J. Polifroni, S. Seneff, and V. Zue, “WHEELS: A conversational system in the automobile classifieds domain,” in Proc. ICSLP, Philadelphia, PA, pp. 542-545, Oct. 1996.
9. Y. Sagisaka, “Speech synthesis by rule using an optimal selection of nonuniform synthesis units,” in Proc. ICASSP, New York, NY, pp. 679-682, Apr. 1988.
10. V. Zue, S. Seneff, J. Glass, L. Hetherington, E. Hurley, H. Meng, C. Pao, J. Polifroni, R. Schloming, and P. Schmid, “From interface to content: Translingual access and delivery of on-line information,” in Proc. Eurospeech, Rhodes, Greece, pp. 2227-2230, Sept. 1997.
11. V. W. Zue, Acoustic Characteristics of Stop Consonants: A Controlled Study. Sc.D. thesis, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 1976.