An HMM-based speech synthesis system applied to English

Proceedings of 2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 227-230

  Tokuda, Keiichi ^a,b   Zen, Heiga ^a   Black, Alan W ^b  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CONTEXTUAL FACTORS; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; SPEECH WAVEFORMS; SYNTHESIZED SPEECH; TEXT ANALYSIS; UNIT SELECTION APPROACH; VOICE CHARACTERISTICS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84966348891     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSS.2002.1224415     Document Type: Conference Paper

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