Limitations to concatenative speech synthesis

6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Campbell, Nick ^a  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CLOSED LOOPS; CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; DESIGN AND EVALUATIONS; IN-LINE ACOUSTICS; OPTIMAL COVERAGE; PHONEMIC BALANCE; SELF-CORRECTION; SPEECH CORPORA;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85009100490     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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