Automatic labelling of voice-quality in speech databases for synthesis

6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Campbell, Nick ^a   Marumoto, Torn ^a  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MARKOV PROCESSES; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC CHARACTERISTIC; AUTOMATIC LABELLING; PERCEPTUAL TEST; SPEAKING STYLES; SPEECH CORPORA; SPEECH DATABASE; TEST MATERIALS; VOICED SEGMENT;

SPEECH;

EID: 85009115725     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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