Integration of rule-based formant synthesis and waveform concatenation: A hybrid approach to text-to-speech synthesis

Proceedings of 2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 87-90

  Hertz, S R ^a,b  

^a SpeechWorks International   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

FORMANT SYNTHESIS; HYBRID APPROACH; NATURAL SPEECH; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH DATABASE; SYNTHESIS RULES; TEXT TO SPEECH; UNIT SELECTION;

SPEECH;

EID: 84966440972     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSS.2002.1224379     Document Type: Conference Paper

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