Discriminative weight training for unit-selection based speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 281-284

  Park, Seung Seop ^a   Kim, Chong Kyu ^a   Kim, Nam Soo ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COST FUNCTIONS; SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CLASSIFICATION ERRORS; CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; DISCRIMINATIVE TRAINING; DISCRIMINATIVE WEIGHT; GRADIENT DESCENT TECHNIQUES; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; SUBJECTIVE SPEECH QUALITY; SYNTHESIZED SPEECH;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85009231318     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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