Evaluating and correcting phoneme segmentation for unit selection synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 313-316

  Kominek, John ^a   Bennett, Christina ^a   Black, Alan W ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ACOUSTIC MODEL; AUTOMATIC LABELING; BUILDING UNITS; MOST LIKELY; ON DYNAMICS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM; SYSTEMATIC BIAS; UNIT SELECTION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 85009168667     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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