Duration modeling for Hindi text-to-speech synthesis system

8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 789-792

  Krishna, N Sridhar ^a   Talukdar, Partha Pratim ^a   Bali, Kalika ^a   Ramakrishnan, A G ^b  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE; DATA-DRIVEN MODEL; DURATION MODELING; DURATION PREDICTIONS; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; ROOT MEAN SQUARED; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85009064374     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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