Preselection of candidate units in a unit selection-based text-to-speech synthesis system

6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Conkie, Alistair ^a   Beutnagel, Mark C ^a   Syrdal, Ann K ^a   Brown, Philip E ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CALCULATION PROCESS; PRE-SELECTION; PRECOMPUTING; RUN TIME COMPLEXITY; RUNTIMES; SPEECH QUALITY; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM; UNIT SELECTION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 84976207652     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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