Study on time-dependent voice quality variation in a large-scale single speaker speech corpus used for speech synthesis

Proceedings of 2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 15-18

  Kawai, H ^a   Tsuzaki, M ^a  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CORPUS-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; EQUAL ERROR RATE; PRACTICAL USE; SPECTRAL TILT; SPEECH CORPORA; TIME DEPENDENT; VOICE QUALITY;

SPEECH;

EID: 84966393745     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSS.2002.1224362     Document Type: Conference Paper

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