Recent improvements on ARTIC: Czech text-to-speech system

8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1933-1936

  Matoušek, Jindřich ^a   Romportl, Jan ^a   Tihelka, Daniel ^a   Tychtl, Zbyněk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EQUIPMENT; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MARKOV PROCESSES; SPEECH; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CANDIDATE SELECTION; CORPUS-BASED; PROSODIC FEATURES; SLOVAK LANGUAGES; SPEECH PRODUCTION; STATISTICAL APPROACH; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 85009071398     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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