Custom-tailoring TTS voice font - Keeping the naturalness when reducing database size

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

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 2957-2960

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

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

COMBINED CRITERION; DATA DRIVEN; DATABASE SIZE; DIFFERENT SIZES; LARGE AMOUNTS; OBJECTIVE MEASURE; TTS SYSTEMS; VOICE FONTS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 85009231020     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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