Subjective evaluation of join cost functions used in unit selection speech synthesis

8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1181-1184

  Vepa, Jithendra ^a   King, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

GOOD CORRELATIONS; LISTENING TESTS; SPECTRAL DISTANCES; STATE OF THE ART; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM; UNIT SELECTION; UNIT-SELECTION SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

COST FUNCTIONS;

EID: 85009063825     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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