A data-driven approach to source-formant type text-to-speech system

7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 2365-2368

  Mori, Hiroki ^a   Ohtsuka, Takahiro ^a   Kasuya, Hideki ^a  

^a UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

DATA DRIVEN; DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH; FLEXIBLE CONTROL; HEURISTIC RULES; SPEECH SYNTHESIZER; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM; VOCAL-TRACTS; VOICE QUALITY;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 85009156064     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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