New objective distance measures for spectral discontinuities in concatenative speech synthesis

Proceedings of 2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 223-226

  Vepa, Jithendra ^a,b   King, Simon ^a   Taylor, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Rhetorical Systems Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

AUDIBLE DISCONTINUITIES; CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; DISTANCE METRICS; GOOD CORRELATIONS; OBJECTIVE MEASURE; SPECTRAL FEATURE; SPECTRAL PROPERTIES; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM;

SPEECH;

EID: 84966318856     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSS.2002.1224414     Document Type: Conference Paper

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