Refined speech segmentation for concatenative speech synthesis

7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 149-152

  Sethy, Abhinav ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

AUTOMATED TECHNIQUES; AUTOMATIC PLACEMENT; BOUNDARY PLACEMENTS; CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; DYNAMIC TIME WARPING; PHONETIC SEGMENTATION; SEGMENTATION SCHEME; SPEECH SEGMENTATION;

SPEECH;

EID: 85009233137     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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