A flexible, scalable finite state transducer architecture for corpus based concatenative speech synthesis

6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Yi, Jon R W ^a   Glass, James R ^a   Lee Hetherington, I ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TRANSDUCERS;

CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; CONVERSATIONAL SYSTEMS; FINITE STATE TRANSDUCERS; PRONUNCIATION MODELLING; SPOKEN DIALOGUE; TRANSDUCER STRUCTURE; UNIFIED FRAMEWORK; UNIT SELECTION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85009143824     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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