A hybrid method oriented to concatenative text-to-speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 2953-2956

  Iriondo, Ignasi ^a   Alías, Francesc ^a   Sanchis, Javier ^a   Melenchón, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT RAMON LLULL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EMOTIONAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS; HARMONIC PLUS NOISE MODEL; HIGH QUALITY; HYBRID METHOD; PITCH MODIFICATION; PROSODIC MODIFICATIONS; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85009168088     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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