Pruning of redundant synthesis instances based on weighted vector quantization

EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 2231-2234

  Kim, Sanghun ^a   Lee, Youngjik ^a   Hirose, Keikichi ^b  

^a Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REDUCTION; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS); SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

BASED CLUSTERING; LARGE SCALE SYNTHESIS; OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; PRUNING METHODS; REDUCTION RATE; SYNTHETIC SPEECH;

VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

EID: 85009072352     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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