DFW-based spectral smoothing for concatenative speech synthesis

8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1397-1400

  Pfitzinger, Hartmut R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY RESPONSE; INTERPOLATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

AUTOCORRELATION COEFFICIENT; AUTOREGRESSIVE FILTERS; CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; FORMANT TRAJECTORY; LINEAR INTERPOLATION; MAGNITUDE SPECTRUM; SPECTRAL REPRESENTATIONS; SPECTRAL SMOOTHING;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 85009126354     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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