Must diphone synthesis be so unnatural?

EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 975-978

  Barry, William ^a   Nielsen, Claus ^b   Andersen, Ove ^b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

DIPHONES; NOCV1; NON-NATIVE; NON-NATIVE LISTENERS; PAIRED COMPARISON; SUB-GROUPS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84966401005     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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