Kalman-filter based join cost for unit-selection speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 293-296

  Vepa, Jithendra ^a   King, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; COSTS; KALMAN FILTERS; SPEECH; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

LINE SPECTRAL FREQUENCIES; LINEAR DYNAMICAL MODELS; MODEL PREDICTION; SPEECH SEGMENTS; STATE OF THE ART; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM; UNIT SELECTION; UNIT-SELECTION SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 85009167944     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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