Perceptual evaluation of cost for segment selection in concatenative speech synthesis

Proceedings of 2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 183-186

  Toda, T ^a,b   Kawai, H ^a   Tsuzaki, M ^a   Shikano, K ^b  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

AVERAGE COST; CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; PERCEPTUAL EVALUATION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; SEGMENT SELECTION; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; TEXT TO SPEECH; VARIOUS FUNCTIONS;

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EID: 84966262545     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSS.2002.1224404     Document Type: Conference Paper

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