A design method of speech corpus for text-to-speech synthesis taking account of prosody

6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Kawai, Hisashi ^a,b   Yamamoto, Seiichi ^a   Higuchi, Norio ^b   Shimizu, Tohru ^b  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^b KDDI R AND D LABORATORIES INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

DATA SIZE; DESIGN METHOD; PROSODY GENERATIONS; SPEECH CORPORA; VOICE FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES;

DESIGN;

EID: 84976253297     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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