IMPLICATIONS OF ENERGY DECLINATION FOR SPEECH SYNTHESIS

3rd ESCA/COCOSDA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 47-52

  Trouvain, Jürgen ^a   Barry, William J ^a   Nielsen, Claus ^b   Andersen, Ove ^b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE DIFFERENCE; DIPHONES; ENERGY; FINE TUNING; INCLUDING DEGREES; PHRASE BOUNDARY; PROSODICS; SYNTHETIC SPEECH;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85009069845     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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