CREATING A DATABASE OF SPEECH IN NOISE FOR UNIT SELECTION SYNTHESIS

5th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 229-230

  Langner, Brian ^a   Black, Alan W ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

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Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; SPEECH IN NOISE; SYNTHETIC VOICES; UNIT SELECTION; UNIT-SELECTION SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84996653496     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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