Evolutionary weight tuning based on diphone pairs for unit selection speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1333-1336

  Alías, Francesc ^a   Llorà, Xavier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT RAMON LLULL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

COST METRICS; DIPHONES; TEXT TO SPEECH; TRIPHONES; UNIT SELECTION; UNIT-SELECTION SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 85009210634     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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