A database design for a TTS synthesis system using lexical diphones

8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1381-1384

  Lambert, Tanya ^a   Breen, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; SPEECH;

DATABASE DESIGN; FEATURE SETS; KNOWLEDGE BASED; MULTIPLE SET; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION; ON-LINE DOCUMENTS; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; TEXT CORPORA;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84976230467     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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