Rare Events and Closed Domains: Two Delicate Concepts in Speech Synthesis

4th ITRW on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Möbius, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS;

APPLICATIONS DOMAINS; DATA-DRIVEN MODEL; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; LOWER FREQUENCIES; RULE BASED; UNIT SELECTION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85009182204     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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