A NONLINEAR UNIT SELECTION STRATEGY FOR CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS BASED ON SYLLABLE LEVEL FEATURES

5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Holzapfel, Martin ^a   Campbell, Nick ^b  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUZZY LOGIC;

ADAPTIVE MEASURES; BEAM SEARCH; CLUSTERINGS; CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; FUZZY LOGIC THEORY; IMPROVED * ALGORITHM; SPEECH SEGMENTS; STRESS LEVELS; TRIPHONES; UNIT SELECTION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85009122462     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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