Towards fully automatic annotation of audiobooks for TTS

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 975-980

  Boeffard, Olivier ^a   Charonnat, Laure ^a   Le Maguer, Sébastien ^a   Lolive, Damien ^a   Vidal, Gaëlle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Annotation; Audiobook; Phone segmentation

Indexed keywords

ANNOTATION; AUDIOBOOK; AUTOMATIC ANNOTATION; DIGITAL AUDIO; SPEECH CORPORA; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84959132764     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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