How (Not) to Select Your Voice Corpus: Random Selection vs. PhonologicallyBalanced

6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 264-269

  Lambert, Tanya ^a   Braunschweiler, Norbert ^a   Buchholz, Sabine ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

CORPUS SELECTIONS; DIPHONES; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION; OVERALL QUALITY; RANDOM SELECTION; SELECTION BASED; SELECTION METHODS; SUBJECTIVE LISTENING TEST; TEXT TO SPEECH; UNIT SELECTION;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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