Text design for tts speech corpus building using a modified greedy selection

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

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 277-280

  Bozkurt, Baris ^a   Ozturk, Ozlem ^a   Dutoit, Thierry ^b  

^a Multitel   (Belgium)

^b FACULTÉ POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; SPEECH; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

GREEDY ALGORITHMS; GREEDY SELECTIONS; HIGH QUALITY; IN-BUILDINGS; SPEECH CORPORA; TEXT CORPORA; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 85009160028     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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