Corpus-based techniques in the AT&T nextgen synthesis system

6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Syrdal, Ann K ^a   Wightman, Colin W ^b   Conkie, Alistair ^a   Stylianou, Yannis ^a   Beutnagel, Mark ^a   Schroeter, Juergen ^a   Strom, Volker ^a   Lee, Ki Seung ^a   Makashay, Matthew J ^c  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH; DEVELOPMENT TIME; HARMONIC PLUS NOISE MODEL; NOCV2; PRE-SELECTION; PROSODIC LABELING; SPEECH EVENTS; TEXT TO SPEECH; TRAINING TECHNIQUES;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85001632375     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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