WHICH IS MORE IMPORTANT IN A CONCATENATIVE TEXT TO SPEECH SYSTEM—PITCH, DURATION, OR SPECTRAL DISCONTINUITY?

3rd ESCA/COCOSDA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 231-236

  Plumpe, M ^a   Meredith, S ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; QUALITY DEGRADATION; RANK ORDERING; RELATIVE QUALITIES; SIMPLE++; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84947259106     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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