Perpetually optimizing the cost function for unit selection in a TTS system with one single run of MOS evaluation

7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 2309-2312

  Peng, Hu ^a   Zhao, Yong ^a   Chu, Min ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; CORPUS-BASED; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; KEYPOINTS; LOG FILE; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; TTS SYSTEMS; UNIT SELECTION;

COST FUNCTIONS;

EID: 85009170861     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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