On unit analysis for Cantonese corpus-based TTS

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

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 269-272

  Xu, Jun ^a   Choy, Thomas ^a   Dong, Minghui ^a   Guan, Cuntai ^a   Li, Haizhou ^a  

^a InfoTalk Technology   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

CANTONESE; CORPUS-BASED; QUALITY ISSUES; RESEARCH FOCUS; TTS SYSTEMS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 85009228508     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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