Using cross-syllable units for Cantonese speech synthesis

6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Law, K M ^a   Lee, Tan ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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Indexed keywords

CHINESE DIALECTS; CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; CONTEXT DEPENDENT; PROSODIC MODIFICATIONS; SMOOTHING TECHNIQUES; SUBJECTIVE LISTENING TEST; SYLLABLE BOUNDARIES; SYNTHETIC SPEECH;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85009151673     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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