FESTIVAL 2 – BUILD YOUR OWN GENERAL PURPOSE UNIT SELECTION SPEECH SYNTHESISER

5th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 173-178

  Clark, Robert A J ^a   Richmond, Korin ^a   King, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; RESEARCH ISSUES; SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM; SPEECH SYNTHESIZER; UNIT SELECTION; UNIT-SELECTION SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84973381105     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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