Quantitative evaluation of relevant prosodic factors for text-to-speech synthesis in Spanish

7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 1165-1168

  Escudero Mancebo, D ^a   Gonzalez Ferreras C ^a   Cardenoso Payo V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

BASIC BUILDING BLOCK; CLUSTERING QUALITY; INTONATION MODELING; MODELING PROCEDURE; OBJECTIVE QUALITIES; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; STATISTICAL MODELING;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85009241571     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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