Feature extraction by auditory modeling for unit selection in concatenative speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 2223-2226

  Tsuzaki, Minoru ^a  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; CODES (SYMBOLS); FEATURE EXTRACTION; SPEECH; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

AUDITORY MODELING; AUDITORY RESPONSE; CODING MECHANISM; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; INDIVIDUAL FEATURES; SPECTRAL FEATURE; STANDARD DEVIATION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 85009083859     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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