Optimizing integrated cost function for segment selection in concatenative speech synthesis based on perceptual evaluations

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 297-300

  Toda, Tomoki ^a   Kawai, Hisashi ^a   Tsuzaki, Minoru ^a  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; INTEGRATED COSTS; LOCAL DEGRADATION; PERCEPTUAL EVALUATION; POWER COEFFICIENTS; SEGMENT SELECTION; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; TEXT TO SPEECH;

COST FUNCTIONS;

EID: 85009133467     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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