Unit selection for speech synthesis using splicing costs with weighted finite state transducers

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

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 987-990

  Bulyko, Ivan ^a   Ostendorf, Mari ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; SPEECH; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TRANSDUCERS;

CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; PHONETIC UNITS; SPEECH QUALITY; UNIT SELECTION; WEIGHTED FINITE-STATE TRANSDUCERS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 85009102972     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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