Restricted-domain female-voice synthesis in Spanish: From database design to ANN prosodic modeling

6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Montero, J M ^a   Cordoba R ^a   Vallejo, J A ^a   Gutierrez Arriola J ^a   Enriquez E ^b   Pardo, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

And restricted domain synthesis; ANN; Greedy algorithm; Multi layer perceptron; Prosody modeling

Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

GREEDY ALGORITHMS; MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON; MULTI-LAYER PERCEPTRONS; PROSODIC FEATURES; PROSODIC MODELING; PROSODY MODEL; RESTRICTED-DOMAIN; SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 85009089607     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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