Design of an optimal continuous speech database for text-To-speech synthesis considered as a Set Covering Problem

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

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 829-832

  François, Helene ^a   Böeffard, Olivier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; SPEECH; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH; GREEDY ALGORITHMS; LARGE CORPORA; SET COVERING PROBLEM; SET COVERINGS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 85009074715     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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